For one, not all applications are GPU accelerated.
Two, their UX may need to be improved for a specific hardware configuration. I have used Zed with good performance on Intel dGPU, AMD dGPU, and Intel iGPU without issue — my guess is a missing dependency?
Putting together a high quality, actionable bug report is a much higher bar that can often feel like screaming at the clouds.
I’m genuinely curious what you are getting out of it
As a Linux user, I am sadly accustomed to some software working in only a just-so configuration. A datapoint that the software is still Mac first development is useful to know. Zed might still be worth trying, but I have to temper my enthusiasm from the headline announcement of, “everything is great”.
I don't care about Zed fixing anything - they're Zed's issues, not mine. All I'm saying is that contrary to what someone else said about the software being "fast" I tried it and at startup, it was unusably slow. I'm what you would call a failed conversion.
> Also, how is whether the project is volunteer-run relevant? Would you file a support ticket for commercial software you use saying "it's slow" and then when they follow up asking for details about your setup, you say "sorry, you don't get free QA work from me"
So this is kind of needlessly antagonistic imo - the point between the lines is that FOSS projects run by volunteers get a lot more grace than venture backed companies that go on promotion blitzes talking about their performance.
seems like you needing a GPU would be your issue
Error message, hardware configuration, done.
From my perspective that is not something you do for zed, but something you do for your distro and hardware.
And ofc, your first comment was fine either way. But the attitude of the latter is just poor.
How about "I'm getting <1FPS perf on {specs}" instead of the snark.
The antagonistic part is assuming your specific Linux configuration is innately Zed’s issue. It’s possible simply mentioning it to them would lead you quickly and easily to a solution, no free labor needed. It’s possible Zed is prepared to spend their vast VC resources on fixing your setup, even—which seems to be what you expect. Point being there’s a middle ground where you telling Zed “hey it didn't work well for me” gives Zed the chance to resolve any issues on their end in order to properly convert you, if you truly are interested in trying their editor. You don’t need to respond to the suggestion with a lecture on how companies exploit free volunteer labor and anything short of software served up on a silver platter would make you complicit. It’s really a little absurd.
If I had to guess, your system globally or their rendering library specifically is probably stuck on llvmpipe.