In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Dr. GroundAxe
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on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:50:44 GMT
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Vista Aero: Linux Is Eating Your Lunch
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>> | Take a look at this screengrab from an AMD machine running Linux.
>> | What are we seeing? Wobbly, transparent windows, hot UI effects, an
>> | amazing 3D task switcher, and enough eye-candy to make Vista Ultimatel
>> | ook like Midnight Commander.
>> |
>> | I'm not saying we all go out and pick up a copy of Ubuntu, but maybe
>> | that's actually what I'm saying.
>> `----
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>> http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/31/vista-aero-linux-is-eating-your-lunch/
Lots of eye candy there, to be sure. (Some of it might not be safe for
little children and Wintrolls. :-) )
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> None of it is useful though. The effects in Vista are what came out of
> lots of usability studies. Anyone could write plugins to make the Vista
> compositing engine do all the stuff Beryl can, but these are not things
> Microsoft would want to include by default.
Well, there you have it. "Vista. Because it just needs
to look useful."
And of course since Microsoft sponsored Vista Aero, it is
an unbiased evaluation of what people really need.
Yeah.
Pull the other one.
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