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Compiz was a house of cards you kept building higher. Let me just launch my ‘cube skybox 3d-multilayer wobbly windows with fire effects, shading and sticky edges’ - desktop. When Vista was the alternative it was the goddamn future.
Impressing the neighborhood kids with my windows with jiggle physics.
“Don’t mind the missing V-Sync, I haven’t gotten Xorg to do that yet. But it’s cool, right? Right?”
Those window wobbles are SO HOT
I legitimately credit Compiz and CCSM for kick-starting my obsession with FOSS and probably doubling or more my salary by getting me on Linux earlier in life.
I’m pretty sure I still have a decade old liveusb somewhere with a casper-rw Zorin install, all decked out with compiz desktop switcher animations and Tuxkart 🤣
I’d boot up that thing on school computers and mess around with Linux for fun back in the day
Same! I started messing with Linux in my teens, but it wasn’t until the early 30s that I actually got a job working with Linux, but once I did it fast tracked me to a much higher salary.
This and the wobbly windows
I remember editing the wobbly window settings on my friend’s computer. You’d barely touch a window and it’d get locked into about a minute of the most absurd wobble. I was cracking up for like an hour straight.
Oh god, yes
Thank you, came here for this exact comment.
It was really cool configuring the compiz cube for a weekend. It was tailored to perfection! Then I figured how useless it actually was.
Agreed, I never utilized “multiple desktops”. I never even used multiple monitors until about 7 years ago, even though I’ve been using a computer since 95.
I use multiple desktops a lot. Like all the time. i have six and generally about five of them have at least one window on them. I could have everything on one desktop but then it’d just feel crowded!
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How do you deal with app overlap between projects?
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I also avoid clickyui but I think the issue I have is that I struggle to think in terms of workspaces instead of applications. Also, I always struggled with the discipline required to keep tabs relevant to each browser instance - never mind browser state that should or should not span instances. I tried using Firefox Multi-Account Containers to help with this, but it seemed like I was spending more time adjusting and maintaining (fighting with my browser) than getting shit done.
I suspect things could be a lot better if we eliminated tabs/MDI altogether, but it’d be a huge step backwards for nearly 100% of users, so…
Eh, I’ve never mined it
ahhh this brings compiz fusion warm and fuzzies
Compiz was cool, but beryl was the coolest thing ever made. No discussion
I feel called out
I just recently felt this again, since I decided it had been too long since I’d installed a weird OS, and now I’m running Wayfire on FreeBSD as suggested by the Wayland section of the setup guide and it turns out…it’s a descendant of Compiz. Wobbly windows are BACK!
Whaaaaat?
Wayfire is actually fire https://youtu.be/Ban7wspkrNQ?list=PLb7YRKEhWEBUIoT-a29UoJW9mhfzjpNle
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/Ban7wspkrNQ?list=PLb7YRKEhWEBUIoT-a29UoJW9mhfzjpNle
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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This looks interesting. Possibly an alternative to the outdated (albeit still functional) Compiz.
I still use gnome with the 3D cube extension. It was cool in 2006 and it’s cool now.
I was thinking today at work that I need to go back to using multiple desktops again like I did 10+ years ago. I’ll have three browsers with 40 tabs each open and a terminal with 10 tabs when I’m solving a ticket. Then I’ll get something more urgent and now I have 80 tabs in each browser and 20 terminal tabs.
Lol yeah people today complain about bad GPU drivers. Different world back then.
golf?
Please tell me someone remembers yCube
