Windows users covet my Linux desktop
 

OK, item 1, I have a new job.

But more than that! It turns out that I had a choice in this new job, of a Windows or a Linux desktop. I chose the latter.

On top of the standard Fedora Gnome desktop I installed Beryl, the hot new desktop manager which gives your system a whole new look and feel. Now my windows wobble when I love them around. Any window can be made partly transparent. Wing the mouse up to the upper-right corner, and you get a task switcher that shows thumbnails of all your tasks.

Here's a little preview of what it looks like, the vid takes a little patience

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6XRVdmDOEV8

I can rotate a cube around to reach different virtual desktops. I can push windows around to the desktops by dragging them off to the right or left. When I minimize something it gets visually sucked down into the taskbar.

And much more. And now the Windows ppl are finding me and this other gent running these weird setups, and it looks all cool and stuff and they covet it.

It's more than cool, it's more productive too. And when I go home and work on my old XP system, it seems clunky and old.

Maybe the Vista people have this, but I have it now, and it looks and works great, for free.

I'd like Linux on my old 2k pro box. But I'm kb cmd dumb. + I don't need the bells and things you have. Guess live cd or dvd till I just might understand better?
Also need a psu and a few other things for it.

w00T!!!:celebrat:

Way to go!!

Double woot!

My next PC will be linux.

Congratulations. Let me know when you get one of these (Popular Mechanics sneak preview of Microsoft Surface) ...

When I move them around.

What's the problem? love move love? I bet J loves the way you move! hehehehee... Not to mention the wiggle and the wobble. ;)

Freudian fat-finger.

Oooooh purty screens... Reminds me of Minority Report.

Congrats on the new job, UT!! And hey, wasn't there supposed to be a wedding sometime soon here? Or did you let it slip quietly by without any fanfare?

That's a sharp eye fob.

For now, various unrelated family dramas are preventing things from moving forward.

So I guess the FUD-bomb dropped by Microsoft about hundreds of intellectual property violations in Linux didn't scare your company's legal department? Good for them.

The used laptop I'm running my Ubuntu Linux on has a video card but only 256MB on board. I'm not sure if I could get any kind of performance with the graphics I saw in that demo.

Also, installing the wifi drivers is an extra step I have to take with each new operating system install so I'm not ready to switch.

Very cool screen switching, though.

A J O B? like.... you have to leave the house in the morning...possibly wearing a tie...and drive to an office?

The same $12 Lands' End t-shirt I have always worn, is fine for this office.

oooooo...the hateful ride down 422....i hear it every morning on kyw..... how long does it take you to get there?