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I tried it out about a week ago in a VM. I like what I'm seeing so far but the alpha state is very apparent. Simply trying to configure things is still quite buggy. Then, within 5 minutes, something happened that the whole desktop is broken, just get a mostly black screen. Even after rebooting, it was still broken with no obvious way to recover. I've tried dropping into rescue mode and updating all the packages but that still didn't fix things. I couldn't find any documentation about how to recover (not even a way to reset to default settings), and don't know what else to do other than wipe out the system and reinstall.

Besides that, there's still a lot of settings and functionality missing from the previous Gnome iteration. I believe they're slating for a release by the end of the year, which seems optimistic.




Software rendering isnt there yet. Did you have a hardware accilerated VM?


For me it has been running with minor issues and very few crashes for the last month as my daily driver on both my work (Fedora) and my private (Gentoo) laptop.




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