Windows users covet my Linux desktop

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.

busterb · 05-30-2007, 01:26 PM

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.

BigV · 05-30-2007, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by UT

OK, item 1, I have a new job.

w00T!!!

Way to go!!

glatt · 05-30-2007, 02:09 PM

Double woot!

My next PC will be linux.

Flint · 05-30-2007, 02:51 PM

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

BigV · 05-30-2007, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint

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

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

BigV · 05-31-2007, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

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

Wow. My boss left the WSJ article about this on my chair for me to find this morning. I'll be happy to volley back a link. Thanks.

Undertoad · 05-30-2007, 02:55 PM

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Now my windows wobble when I love them around.

When I move them around.

Flint · 05-30-2007, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Now my windows wobble when I love them around.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

When I move them around.

Freudian fat-finger.

BigV · 05-30-2007, 02:57 PM

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

Clodfobble · 05-30-2007, 06:36 PM

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?

Undertoad · 05-30-2007, 07:02 PM

That's a sharp eye fob.

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

richlevy · 05-30-2007, 08:27 PM

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.

Beestie · 05-30-2007, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

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?

I think Microsoft kind of forgot about that in light of this.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-30-2007, 10:09 PM

Google is building programs that can be used through your browser when not connected to the net? I don't get the application, stuff to compete with msWord and office stuff?

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.

05-30-2007, 01:26 PM	#2
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	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. __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

05-30-2007, 02:51 PM	#5
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Congratulations. Let me know when you get one of these (Popular Mechanics sneak preview of Microsoft Surface) ... __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

05-30-2007, 02:57 PM	#10
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	What's the problem? love move love? I bet J loves the way you move! hehehehee... Not to mention the wiggle and the wobble. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

05-30-2007, 08:27 PM	#13
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	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. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

05-30-2007, 02:09 PM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Double woot! My next PC will be linux.

05-30-2007, 06:36 PM	#11
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	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?

05-30-2007, 07:02 PM	#12
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	That's a sharp eye fob. For now, various unrelated family dramas are preventing things from moving forward.

05-30-2007, 10:09 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Google is building programs that can be used through your browser when not connected to the net? I don't get the application, stuff to compete with msWord and office stuff? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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