Subj : Microsoft vs. open-source
To   : Nightfox
From : art
Date : Wed Mar 31 2010 13:54:00

  Re: Microsoft vs. open-source
  By: Nightfox to Rassilon on Sun Mar 28 2010 10:28:33

 >   Re: Microsoft vs. open-source
 >   By: Rassilon to Nightfox on Sun Mar 28 2010 07:36:00
 >  > Microsoft can NEVER compete with that...
 > effects can get in the way of work sometimes.  It can take a second or so to
 > draw those effects, and since those effects will happen a lot, that time can
 > add up..

That's a fair statement, although on my quad core computer, TWM runs at the
same speed as compiz turned all the way up, these days it's becoming less and
less of an issue.

I do agree with you though, all these bells and whistles don't really have
anything to do with the OS itself and give end users the wrong impression.
Compiz cube is awesome, lovely eye candy et al., but at the end of the day
functionally doesn't make much difference from hitting alt-tab in windows.

One thing I'm doing these days is running 7 as a host OS, then using virtualbox
with ubuntu koala as a guest VM in integrated mode, if you've got a decent
system compiz cube works just a smoothly:
http://art.csoft.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/theultimatecombo.jpg

Kind regards,
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