Until now, the software renderer shipped with Maya didn't work very well, Cinnamon was very glitchy, almost unusable.
But with the recent update to some mesa libraries something changed... A LOT!
Who knows... maybe our brothers from Ubuntu started to port the patches from Fedora 17 (Fedora devs did a fantastic job to make Gnome3 based desktops work with software rendering).
Wanna try?
Open a terminal and execute this command:.
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LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 cinnamon --replace
Take a look at this:
Of course, be prepared to see some very high cpu usage while doing certaint tasks, because all the work will be done at your main processor, not your graphics card.
But if you have a good cpu, you'll find that's very usable, and almost indistinguishable from real hardware rendering. In my system (a modest intel core i3) works extremely well.
Please share your experiences.
Cheers!
Oops... I forgot!
You can avoid some glitches with this trick:
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gksudo gedit /etc/environment
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CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling