Compiz Fusion

[WoodPeckr]

It's awesome!...

Just started playing around with it on Ubuntu. There are some amazing 3-D special effects M$ & Mac don't even have yet....and a few that M$ & Mac stole and incorporated into their OS.

Anyone else using Compiz?

Compiz Fusion: A Quick Demonstration

 

[blackrock13]

Apparently no one is or they won't admit to it.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Open Source ROCKS!!!

Hard to say. I knew about it since 2007 but never bothered to play around with it till coming across a few You Tube clips on it. It comes standard on Ubuntu now but I never bothered to enable and use it till recently. It's pretty neat cutting edge stuff not found on M$ & Mac. That's the beauty of Linux, it affords you far more freedom for custom settings and configurations than anywhere else for those with natural curiosity and not content to led around by the nose being told what they should do and like....

 

[blackrock13]

Hard to say. I knew about it since 2007 but never bothered to play around with it till coming across a few You Tube clips on it. It comes standard on Ubuntu now but I never bothered to enable and use it till recently. It's pretty neat cutting edge stuff not found on M$ & Mac. That's the beauty of Linux, it affords you far more freedom for custom settings and configurations than anywhere else for those with natural curiosity and not content to led around by the nose being told what they should do and like....

Ya, we know this as we heard it from your lips ad nauseam, but apparently nobody in Terb land cares. It seems to be a case of out of the box and let it do it's thing. Heavy tweaking is obviously for geeks or wanna-bees.

 

[Cassini]

Been there, done that. It is cool, however I usually just want a web browser that works, and a method for playing songs and music.

Stock Ubuntu keeps me happy most of the time. For the rest, I need make and gcc.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Ya, we know this as we heard it from your lips ad nauseam, but apparently nobody in Terb land cares. It seems to be a case of out of the box and let it do it's thing. Heavy tweaking is obviously for geeks or wanna-bees.

LOL!
And this is different from your endless almost cultist Mac Fanboi shilling because?

It just seems that Mac with it's KISS mentality is more suited to your incurious view of technology. Some are more curious about what make something tick and enjoy tinkering and tweaking it, for effect. While you just go with the flow accepting what is served up for you to swallow wanting nothing more than for it to work out of the box....

 

[blackrock13]

LOL!
And this is different from your endless almost cultist Mac Fanboi shilling because?

It just seems that Mac with it's KISS mentality is more suited to your incurious view of technology. Some are more curious about what make something tick and enjoy tinkering and tweaking it, for effect. While you just go with the flow accepting what is served up for you to swallow wanting nothing more than for it to work out of the box....

I've been downgraded to an 'almost cultist'. I'm so upset.

Define some. The last I heard it was around 8%. If you take away the corporations, that would drop down to how many regular folks Woodie? Any estimates? I'll bet it's a whole lot less than some 8%. Mosr regular folks take months to tweak their 'Preferences' in the various programs they run and don't want to go any deeper than that.

 

[WoodPeckr]

I've been downgraded to an 'almost cultist'. I'm so upset.

LOL!
Knew that would get ya, consider it a 'gotcha'!....

 

[blackrock13]

LOL!
Knew that would get ya, consider it a 'gotcha'!....

That's nice. Glad you can catch a slow pitch softball, but what about those estimates? Any number you can offer?

 

[WoodPeckr]

Linux is NOT promoted like M$ & Mac

That's nice. Glad you can catch a slow pitch softball, but what about those estimates? Any number you can offer?

Now you sound like bottie with his 'fuzzy numbers'!
Linux ISN'T MARKETED like BIG M$ and lil apple.
Linux is a FREE alternative for those curious and not incurious as you!...

Here's more for those more curious:

What is Compiz Fusion?

 

[blackrock13]

Now you sound like bottie with his 'fuzzy numbers'!
Linux ISN'T MARKETED like BIG M$ and lil apple.
Linux is a FREE alternative for those curious and not incurious as you!...

So, no numbers? That must mean it's really a small number, possibly a prime number, therefore of little consequences to most of the civilized world.

Oh, the video, cute. Did you put that together for your grade 9 Video Arts course this year?

 

[WoodPeckr]

Again it's FREE and not subjected to the saturation advertising you see with Apple that still only results in ~8% market share.....

 

[blackrock13]

Again it's FREE and not subjected to the saturation advertising you see with Apple that still only results in ~8% market share.....

So really really smaller than 8% is what you're saying.

 

[WoodPeckr]

So really really smaller than 8% is what you're saying.

Yepper!
And in spite ot that it's funny how M$ & Apple fear Linux so, doing all they can to keep folks in the dark about it!...

 

[blackrock13]

Folks aren't in the dark. They just don't care about it. Lots of people I know are aware of Linux, they just don't care about it.

If it's free, who pays for all these neat programs. If people are doing this for free, that's really dumb. They must have other jobs so they can pay the rent money for their basement apartments to their parents.

Lunch is over Woodie, back to work.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Folks are given misinformation and kept in the dark about Linux. Look how fast M$ reversed course and extended the expiry date of XP when all those netbooks came loaded with Linux. M$ even admits Linux is their worst nightmare and wishes to keep folks clueless about it. Mac even more so since OS X is widely jokingly viewed as a non-free Linux disto by the Linux community....

 

[blackrock13]

Again it's FREE and not subjected to the saturation advertising you see with Apple that still only results in ~8% market share.....

Pleas give us your definition of free Woodie.

From http://www.linux.org/apps/

Linux is available in several formats, called distributions. Each distribution has its own set of features and functionality that makes it unique -- some distributions are available for download at no charge, others are provided on CD or floppy disk and have a (usually) nominal charge associated with them.

Shouldn't you really say sort of cheap, but not free?

I also saw on the same page a list of 'patches'. Isn't that another term for fixes? Does that mean there are bugs in Linux programs? Hmmmmmm.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Pleas give us your definition of free Woodie.

Shouldn't you really say sort of cheap, but not free?

Been using Linux for 4 years and HAVE NOT PAID A PENNY for Linux or any associated software!
That's my definition of FREE!
Sure there are some distros for sale if you choose. YOU have that choice....unlike Apple where you pay through the nose!
No big whup worth the obfuscating you are doing.

I also saw on the same page a list of 'patches'. Isn't that another term for fixes? Does that mean there are bugs in Linux programs? Hmmmmmm.

LOL!
ALL AND ANY OS has bugs!
ALL OF THEM!!!
Now you are being silly!....

That said I have experienced FAR FAR FAR LESS bugs with Linux than with M$.
And as for Mac it's far too pricey and not even worth blowing the money on IMNSHO!

 

[blackrock13]

Well I've had my Mac for 6+ years and I'd have to guess that the last program I bought for it was maybe 4 years ago at $100.00. Take the tax deductions for it and stretch that over the life of the computer/program and we're really not breaking the bank here Woodie. You probably spend more money on one of your sojourns over the Peace Bridge to the Falls and the entertainment over there than I've spent on my Mac in 7 years. You're just really are cheap. You'd give Allan Harper of '2 1/2 Men' fame a run for his money. Do you have an elastic or Velcro on you wallet? Does your change purse have a double Ziplock.

I've never said there weren't bugs in Mac. All I know is the Mac computers I've had have worked out of the box and have in total not been able to operate a total of 4 hours ( my fault) since ~1984. Can't be much better than that. My Windows PCs do that weekly.

'IMNSHO' Wow!. Not many on this BB would have ever the cahones to use that phrase with a straight mug.

 

[WoodPeckr]

'IMNSHO' Wow!. Not many on this BB would have ever the cahones to use that phrase with a straight mug.

Fine!
I have no problem using it!

Do youself a favor and try out Linux.
Open your mind. You don't know what you are missing!....

Then try out Compiz Fusion to see what features Apple will steal to incorporate into their OS in the future....