Desktop effects are easily disabled, and like any debian based system they are easily removed. If you look at the new unified appearance menu, for all of gnomes visual components, there is a desktop effect tab. It has an option for three levels of effects; Ranging from 'None' - 'Normal'(as in the ones that help usability like dragging, expose, and desktop wall) - and 'Extra' (which includes all the flashy non effective plugins).
You can access the appearance menu by via System->Preferences->Appearance or by Right clicking on your desktop and selecting 'Change Desktop Background' then selecting the effects tab.
Well the real issue is not 'geeks makes something in their basements that eventually becomes a quality product' and that companies are now funding/writing alot of the code. The real amazing thing is that thousands of independent projects/companies come together to make something that rivals the OSs with some of the most focused development(and expensive). No single company drives GNU-Linux and free software. Everyone is pushing towards their own goal and we all happen to be going in a similar direction(IBM is pushing code into free software to provide what they want out of their server platform).
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Desktop effects are easily disabled, and like any debian based system they are easily removed. If you look at the new unified appearance menu, for all of gnomes visual components, there is a desktop effect tab. It has an option for three levels of effects; Ranging from 'None' - 'Normal'(as in the ones that help usability like dragging, expose, and desktop wall) - and 'Extra' (which includes all the flashy non effective plugins). You can access the appearance menu by via System->Preferences->Appearance or by Right clicking on your desktop and selecting 'Change Desktop Background' then selecting the effects tab.
Well the real issue is not 'geeks makes something in their basements that eventually becomes a quality product' and that companies are now funding/writing alot of the code. The real amazing thing is that thousands of independent projects/companies come together to make something that rivals the OSs with some of the most focused development(and expensive). No single company drives GNU-Linux and free software. Everyone is pushing towards their own goal and we all happen to be going in a similar direction(IBM is pushing code into free software to provide what they want out of their server platform).