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Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by madmax108 »

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…

+1 to this. Back in the mid-late 2000s, I used to have a modded compiz theme which was heavily inspired by the Matrix, and looked absolutely spectacular. It included things like windows beind "hidden" unless you used a key-combo to "see the matrix", a bunch of animation effects, some sound effects from the movie etc.

I can bet that more folks in school wanted to try out linux (This was around the time when Canonical was sending out free installation CDs to whoever wanted to try out Ubuntu) because they thought it was "cool" rather than because of any of the other philosophical or technical arguments for Linux.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by _zzaw »

dhosek wrote: post #229
_zzaw wrote: post #94

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macOS has gotten a lot less fun, starting with X. I remember no end of UI-customization utilities for pre-X Macs, some of which were really powerful, like Kaleidoscope. I loved being able to make the system look like an NeXT box (there was even an Irix theme) or design my own UI entirely. Even Apple briefly considered the idea of building theme support right into the OS. But they didn’t, and the few quirky things tha…

On the flip side, I remember in the late 80s that pretty much every Mac disk had a virus on it thanks to fairly loose OS security in those days. I'm guessing that no more talking moose is the price we pay for not having to worry about getting a virus anytime something is put in the computer.

Heh, I remember reading about a few of the infamous ones. Most of them seemed generally harmless; I never got one, although if I’d gotten more software from MUGs and mixtape-style floppies, I might have.

You are definitely correct about loose OS security. It was possible to do a lot of damage with just a HyperCard stack, and those were pretty widely distributed.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by georgewsinger »

Really cool.

SimulaVR (simulavr.com) is interested in potentially adding compiz effects like this into its VR window manager. There are some really cool ones you can do in VR, but I won't say more. =]

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by the_only_law »

stjohnswarts wrote: post #231
Firehawke wrote: post #32

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That's really it-- it's a waste of resources, but it's such a tiny amount that all these effects are almost free. There's no point in not having a little fluff that makes the experience a bit more fun.

Not really, these effects are nothing to modern graphics cards.

On that note, I’ve kinda wondered what kinda of wonderful looking modernized replacement for XFishtank we could have on modern GPUs.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by andai »

rubidium wrote: post #236
andai wrote: post #11

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Ahh, you've brought back fond memories of grade school powerpoint presentations :)

Me: “There are people who had PowerPoint in grade school!” *googles PowerPoint release date. Answer: 2004. I guess that checks out. I’m old now.

It's from the 80s, actually. But yes, I was referring to the early 2000s :)

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by jmspring »

necovek wrote: post #226
jmspring wrote: post #128

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I thought compiz was interesting and it did have an impact. That said, In the mid 2000s, Linux was better but still had issues getting video/etc configured properly (depending on what you wanted to do/your hardware). I specifically moved to OS X because video just worked.

Playing videos with Xv worked well for me on Linux in early 2000s. I can't never get proper hw-accelerated video to play without bogging CPU down on my Linux laptops anymore (Thinkpads with Intel low-voltage CPUs).

I was more a FreeBSD person at the time, slutty to try various things, but 2000s think pads and FreeBSD just worked at some point and never changed that system. Used OSX otherwise. Printers were the other Linux/OS X usage gap.

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Post by dotancohen »

tomrod wrote: post #239
dekerta wrote: post #238

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Wobbly windows are still available in KDE Plasma Desktop Environments (I use Kubuntu, but there are many others). Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects > Enable Wobbly Windows Enjoy :)

I just tried (on most recent versions with Fedora 35). Did not work yet :( Maybe after restart.

Interesting. On my KDE 5.18 (Kubuntu 20.04 LTS) Wobbly Windows worked as soon as I clicked Apply.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by FemmeAndroid »

rbanffy wrote: post #171
bogwog wrote: post #156

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> The Windows Terminal team has a lot more fun than the others, it seems. Instead of having fun, they should be performing doctoral research to improve performance. ( https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... )

If the person thinks it's that simple, they could offer a patch. I don't think it's simple and I won't.

After that post they did implement a full reference implementation:

https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm/commits/main

And there is movement in getting changes into the terminal itself:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10461

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