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Thinking About Desktop Eyecandy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the almost-entirely-a-glorious-waste dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article ponders over whether excess eye candy and special effects being incorporated on the desktop is a good trend after all? The author explains why he thinks the users are taken for a ride by the OS companies in compelling them to upgrade their hardware in order to enable these processor intensive and memory hungry special effects."

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  1. Necessary? by the+linux+geek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is eyecandy really necessary? I can see that a GUI is necessary for non-computer-inclined users. But this is really getting silly. The GUI was created to make commands easier to access, not to be pretty. Anyone who has used Windows 1 or 2 knows that early GUIs were definitely NOT pretty. --A proud twm user