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Compiz Project Releases C++ Based v0.9.0
werfu writes "Compiz 0.9.0, the first release of Compiz rewritten in C++, has been announced on the Compiz mailing list. See the announcement for more info." Compiz has for years been one of my favorite ways to make Windows users envious, despite my (Linux) systems' otherwise low-end graphics capabilities. Besides the switch to C++ from C, this release "brings a whole new developer API, splits rendering into plugins,
switches the buildsystem from automake to cmake and brings minor functionality improvements."
This is a first release after the reunification of the Compiz, Compiz++, NOMAD and Compiz Fusion branches. It's unstable, but at least it's good to see all the effort coming under the same roof again.
Nothing useful. It's eye candy, like a turbo-charged Aero Glass with 3D effects.
I use the cube desktop switcher and that's it. For some reason I find the idea of a cube easier to map out my mind when I have several windows open than a chain of 4 desktops.
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In fact, on old systems with a graphics card it is significantly faster than the traditional way of redrawing windows.
Why? Because:
1. the gfx card can do part of the work
2. all windows are already drawn and kept in the graphic card's memory
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
No, karma whoring is to post something completely obvious you know will be modded up and not add anything to the discussion. Like this comment.
Compiz doesn't actually use that much system resources, nor strain your hardware either.
I have a 3.2GHz tri-core Phenom II system with a GTS 240 (~400MHz, 96 stream processors) and Compiz will easily consume 5% or more if you have a window with continual graphics updates, like a game or a video player. That's a lot of CPU! You can manually disable transforms on that window but that requires a visit to the settings manager that would leave the average user dumbfounded.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Miss: X = GUI
Assuming something is what it isn't will surely give you wrong impressions. X is NOT by ANY means a GUI. Try again.
And drunken cheerleaders get date raped more than shut-in nerd chicks. Personally, I prefer nerd chicks, and you likely do too, but most people don't. Really, they don't, and there's no use telling them that their opinion is wrong.
Do people prefer Windows? After actually trying Linux? Not in my experience.
If you don't value your time.
Most stuff works out of the box. Some stuff does not work out of the box on Windows or Mac either.
Until of course you try and run a script written for fooshell on barshell, i.e. when a distro changes its shell.
Dash is supposed to compatible with Bash if you stuck to Debian policy of affected scripts (those than use #!/bin/sh - if you useed bash specific features you should have used #!/bin/bash . Any examples of stuff that breaks? BTW Bash is still the login shell.
Can be made to run on it, given enough time.
Most stuff non-geeks use is in the major distros repos and is easier to install than Windows apps.
But I would not recommend them to a Joe Windows user, ever, since I don't want to be their Support Guy from now until there's a distro that actually Just Works.
My father, my wife, by seven year old daughter, her former pre-school principal, an accountant who used to work for me are all presumably geeks? They all prefer Linux.