GNOME Shell performance improvements in Ubuntu 20.04

The release of Ubuntu 20.04 brings GNOME Shell 3.36 and improved performance in some areas. In this article we will describe the improvements that were contributed by Canonical.

As most Ubuntu users tend to stick to LTS releases they mostly will be upgrading from 18.04. If that's you then you will also notice a larger set of performance improvements introduced in 19.04 2 and especially in 19.10 4. So you might like to read what those are first.

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