Is that polish, or is it just the moving target of low-end machines catching up to the system requirements? I recently tried Ubuntu 22.04 on a computer with minimal graphics hardware and experienced extreme graphics lag until I switched to XFCE. I haven't tried other DEs on that machine so the story may be the same, but I still wouldn't use Gnome on any but my newest machines.
Okay, could just be my machine. I was just so appalled by how badly the default install ran. It's a production server now, and runs great with XFCE, so I probably won't be messing with the configuration.
