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

[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"
(Hits keys to show off some of the more unusable Beryl effects)
"No, it's completely free. Even the snow effect is included"


Works like a charm :D (Tho after packing them off with a Kubuntu CD I 
warn them that if they're using a USB ADSL modem (as I do on my home 
server) then I'll probably have to visit :() No need to explain the 
other benefits of using Linux - the spinny cube thing does it every time :)

My XP partition is nothing more than a glorified games console for 
FlightSim now. And the only time I ever need a second monitor is for 
some of the more complicated overhead panels in FS (And yes, I've tried 
FlightGear but it's just not the same class :()




Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Well, I just found desktop effects...
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> 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 cube _without slowing down_!!!
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> This is awesome.  The XP/Vista upgrade tool (yes, I dual boot XP, I know, I know...) basically told me that this laptop was useless and should be upgraded in just about every way for Aero to work.
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> As a community, I really think that we should be trying to get the fact that you can make your PC look pretty without paying in as many PC magazines as possible.  So many reviews I've read of Vista have been "this is stable, yes it's expensive, BUT LOOK AT THE GRAPHICS!!!!".
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> Anyway, just thought I'd let you know how happy I am about Beryl...
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> M.
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> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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> Ubuntu User( http://www.ubuntu.com/)
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