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With the introduction of 3-D layered UIs such as Aqua and Aero, the issue of combining things became much more complex, leading to the need for a separate compositor layer. Most major window managers today have a 3-D compositor, and for a time it was almost impossible to get good performance from one without a dedicated GPU, meaning software rendering was out of the question even for the basic GUI, leading to issues that previously were mostly seen in gaming.
However, because this still has a performance cost, there are several Linux
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