I can see dist-upgrade updating libglib so I suppose they are the latest versions. I think the setup uses 2.6.35 but somewhere in the setup there are some instructions for how to use 3.2

After waiting tens of seconds just to dismiss a messagebox, opening the dash instantly felt awesome. It has some lag to load the icons but that is accepatble. It also takes a bit long to launch another app but once it's open it's pretty usable. Didn't try anything big like LibreOffice though. My goal is to be able to use inkscape fast enough.

Another minor problem is that it's really hard to xlick withoit initiating a drag so I end up pressing enter. Lastly, there is no right click. I loved on the other hand that lists are finger-scrollable albeit slow to it.