This looks absolutely great, I too have been waiting along time for true translucency. What this'll mean is that things behind a translucent window should keep moving.... open a translucent window over video and the video should keep moving underneath the window, or open it over a clock and the clock will still be able to be seen moving underneath. Great!
Yes I would have to save the same about windows, and I myself used it for years, now going back and using it, I find that doing a simple task in it takes much more effort than something in Gnu/Linux. One small example is downloading a program, in windows I'd have to go to google and search for it, click maybe 2-3 links to find the right page, click through 2 or 3 pages, one which would be nothing but a big ad, then I'd have to sit in a download que for half an hour before I could even start my download. With Gentoo Gnu/Linux I just type emerge .
While I use fluxbox, I found that compared to windows gnome 2.6 really let me get on with what I wanted to do with my computer and seemed out of the way, where as using windows feels like the whole interface is in my face.
I don't think that microsoft have done a good job of making computers easy to use at all, for a complete beginner it's completely confusing, when my father first tried to use a windows box he didn't know at all what to do with it to get the stuff he wanted done. Since using Gnome he hasn't asked me a single question and has found it incredibly easy to use. Keep it simple stupid.
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"I went and check the map". Nice.
America and intellectual in the same paragraph.
Okay, I realise the word "America" isn't actually used in the paragraph.
This looks absolutely great, I too have been waiting along time for true translucency. What this'll mean is that things behind a translucent window should keep moving.... open a translucent window over video and the video should keep moving underneath the window, or open it over a clock and the clock will still be able to be seen moving underneath. Great!
Yes I would have to save the same about windows, and I myself used it for years, now going back and using it, I find that doing a simple task in it takes much more effort than something in Gnu/Linux. One small example is downloading a program, in windows I'd have to go to google and search for it, click maybe 2-3 links to find the right page, click through 2 or 3 pages, one which would be nothing but a big ad, then I'd have to sit in a download que for half an hour before I could even start my download. With Gentoo Gnu/Linux I just type emerge . While I use fluxbox, I found that compared to windows gnome 2.6 really let me get on with what I wanted to do with my computer and seemed out of the way, where as using windows feels like the whole interface is in my face.
I don't think that microsoft have done a good job of making computers easy to use at all, for a complete beginner it's completely confusing, when my father first tried to use a windows box he didn't know at all what to do with it to get the stuff he wanted done. Since using Gnome he hasn't asked me a single question and has found it incredibly easy to use. Keep it simple stupid.