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Undertoad · 05-30-2007, 10:41 AM

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.

05-30-2007, 10:41 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	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.