Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eyecandy in Ubuntu Feisty Vs. Vista Aero

2007-06-13 Thread Matthew Larsen
I really dont get the deal with all the fancy effects. Yeah they are awesome from time-to-time (like showing off to mates) but I find them so irritating a lot more of the time. I just couldnt wrap my mind around windows vista when running the beta, the interface just made things 90X harder for me.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eyecandy in Ubuntu Feisty Vs. Vista Aero

2007-06-07 Thread Skeg Fast
I hear ya! I've converted a lot of people to Linux just from them sitting and watching me use Kubuntu with Beryl on a 4 year old desktop. "Yeah, my desktop struggles with Vista too"... (Spins cube). "No, this isn't Vista" (Spins cube some more+transparent stuff). "Yeah, from 2004, Athlon XP" (Hi

[ubuntu-uk] Eyecandy in Ubuntu Feisty Vs. Vista Aero

2007-06-07 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Well, I just found desktop effects... What an awesome, awesome demo for Linux. My laptop is an old HP (Circa 2002) with 512Mb RAM, a P3 1.5 Intel mobile and an onboard ATI ProSavage DDR3 and it runs Beryl with all the desktop effects including the task-switcher, window effects and desktop cub