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Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by garaetjjte »

zeven7 wrote: post #147
jethro_tell wrote: post #141

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Lol was thinking this yesterday when I was explain school years to my grade schoolers. You know, 2nd grade was from 2020-2021 and third is 2021-2022. Half way through I was thinking, we could probably go back to 2 digit years now. . ..

We're just starting the 20s. I don't think I ever heard of the decade from 1910 to 1919 being referred to as the 10s, but I definitely heard of the 20s. Maybe the first 20 years of a century are kind of hard to name, so, yeah it's about time.

Can we now go back to storing year as 2 digits? /s

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by aleffert »

dhosek wrote: post #86

I wonder if it's possible to do things like this with Windows or MacOS. I love the idea of cool effects like this (even if the first thing I did after OSX introduced the genie effect was to turn it off—nowadays the hardware is fast enough for it to not be annoying and the split second of the window shrinking away is a nice visual cue as to what's happened especially if one accidentally hides the window via cmd-H).

A while back I made a goofy app called Appstagram that applied Instagram-like filters to the windows of your desktop applications (https://github.com/aleffert/appstagram), but Apple continually made it more difficult to inject code into every process (even after having been granted permissions by the user) and I eventually gave up.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by DonHopkins »

marcodiego wrote: post #26

Compiz was probably the single most impactful event for desktop linux of the mid 2000's. Not that it itself made much of a difference, but the ripples affect many areas we take for granted today. A few reasons: - it put linux ahead of windows and mac in terms of appearance; - it brought many new users and most were a good mix technical and enthusiasts; - it showed the advantages of modular software; - many plugins we…

https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows/commit/b5f9118...

    // This effect is a homage to the good old Compiz days. However, it is implemented      //
    // quite differently. While Compiz used a particle system, this effect uses a noise     //
    // shader. The noise is moved  vertically over time and mapped to a configurable color  //
    // gradient. It is faded to transparency towards the edges of the window. In addition,  //
    // there are a couple of moving gradients which fade-in or fade-out the fire effect.    //
https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows/blob/main/src/...

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by aflag »

nebula8804 wrote: post #145
laumars wrote: post #139

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> Good for you that you had this experience but this is the standard talking point I have been hearing for 15 years. Which is entirely anecdotal. I’ve done a considerable amount of research on this topic over the last 20 years and for the at least 10 years of it the actual main reason Windows users don’t like Linux is simply because it’s not like Windows. It doesn’t matter how much better Linux might be or how crappy…

Here we go...down the same rabbit hole that these Linux vs whatever else conversations always go down. Just to reiterate: Every OS has problems but in MY experience Linux has broken on me in fundamental ways. MY experience is that Linux cannot be trusted for day to day usage even though I have been giving it chances for 15 years now. I'm glad that you have the fortune of having a better experience but I am not going…

You gave no examples supporting your claims, though. What was your experience? What has broken on you in fundamental ways? When was that? What distribution were you using? Anecdotally, there is no shortage of examples of people formatting their windows installation which would corroborate to the idea that windows is not safe from fundamentally breaking on you.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by MobiusHorizons »

dredmorbius wrote: post #111
leephillips wrote: post #95

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What does “mid 2000's” mean? I don’t mean to be dense, I just can’t figure it out.

Mid '00s if you prefer. Referencing decades in two-digit form fell out of favour with the Y2K issue. Perhaps it should be resurrected. At the turn of the 20th century, fashion was to refer to "oh-eight" and such, IIRC. I don't know that the decade had a common nomenclature. I suspect there's a Wikipedia article on that somewhere.... Hrm ... not really, or at least not readily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade

I've heard it referred to as the aughts. (or in the UK the naughties) Useful way of distinguishing it from the other decades of the 2000's

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by rapind »

tpmx wrote: post #157
marcodiego wrote: post #73

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I miss that feeling. Desktop moves at a much slower pace today.

Me too. Desktop "progress" is now sadly now mostly done by Microsoft (geriatric at best) and Apple (mostly just implementing the new graphical design whims every year).

My god I wish companies would stop iterating on desktop “default” design. The only features on a Mac I use are Cmd+space and Cmd+tab. Beyond that it’s just a host. Every time they add crap I have to find and disable it all.

By all means make cool stuff but also make it opt in.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by jaywalk »

quadrifoliate wrote: post #114
marcodiego wrote: post #26

Compiz was probably the single most impactful event for desktop linux of the mid 2000's. Not that it itself made much of a difference, but the ripples affect many areas we take for granted today. A few reasons: - it put linux ahead of windows and mac in terms of appearance; - it brought many new users and most were a good mix technical and enthusiasts; - it showed the advantages of modular software; - many plugins we…

I instinctively expected to hear the notes of "Here Comes the Hotstepper" when I clicked on that video. I was expecting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ ; which was somewhat popular to send around to show comparisons of how Compiz was so far ahead it could not just replicate Vista's interface, but could also better it in some aspects like the famous 3D cube. Thanks to you and others for working on it! Look…

Shocking to see what passed as acceptable video quality back in 2007.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by DonHopkins »

rbanffy wrote: post #125
nitrogen wrote: post #107

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The physicality that Compiz and wobbly windows brought to the desktop was a huge boon to my productivity. Everything was low latency, high framerate, and just felt real . I could rotate my virtual desktops around and they felt like actual spatial locations for organization. I could drag windows and they felt like quasi-tangible objects, not just abstract rigid platonic rectangles. It was far more than just a gimmick,…

I have to say the same. It makes the computer "feel" better. It reminds me of discussions around Mac vs PC in the early days. The experience of using a Mac was more "fluid" than Windows. The Mac would draw windows faster, move the mouse faster (as in more refreshes of the cursor position per second) and that made it more comfortable to use. At the same time I also used Sun and SGI boxes regularly and the stark differ…

>...SGI's window manager whose name I forgot

4Sight!

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/4Sight_Window_System

http://www.vintagecomputers.info/pitechrep.html

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sgi/iris4d/007-2001-030_4Sight_...

4Sight Programmer's Guide: GL/DGL Interfaces. NeWS. Window Manager.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by nebula8804 »

aflag wrote: post #165
nebula8804 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here we go...down the same rabbit hole that these Linux vs whatever else conversations always go down. Just to reiterate: Every OS has problems but in MY experience Linux has broken on me in fundamental ways. MY experience is that Linux cannot be trusted for day to day usage even though I have been giving it chances for 15 years now. I'm glad that you have the fortune of having a better experience but I am not going…

You gave no examples supporting your claims, though. What was your experience? What has broken on you in fundamental ways? When was that? What distribution were you using? Anecdotally, there is no shortage of examples of people formatting their windows installation which would corroborate to the idea that windows is not safe from fundamentally breaking on you.

I have given examples in another thread here [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29798725
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