Remember this meme? This was super popular years ago, having

I haven't seen this in many years. Thanks for the memories.

lol what the fuck

I always found it hilarious

>>57148199
Who ever said any of that? Why are you bitter if your favorite OS, Windows, wound up being better in your opinion?

Since you obviously didn't intend to have a serious discussion regarding operating systems I will just jump to the ad hominems and state my assumption that you are probably a bored/boring person to want to incite a truly inane response from people on an esoteric anonymous imageboard.

Get some perspective, guy.

>>57148312
>get some perspective
>implying that's not what caused the whole problem in the first place

>>57148199
but it was cool. all the chicks i showed this to were dying ti get my D

>>57148312
hey that's a logical fallacy, man

>>57148199
Only retards ever took that shit seriously. I was horrified the first time I saw compiz, the example I saw had a flames live wallpaper, to make matters even worse.

>>57148355
>implying windows didn't 100% copy the fade out window when closing animation

>>57148199
we still have cube on kde

>>57148199
I remember years ago gnome and kde used to come with wallpapers featuring sexy women in various positions. Not a thing anymore since all these communities and organizations has been infested with swj

>>57148382
One more reason to never touch KDE

damnnit i hate all linux DE none of them will ever be as comfy as windows explorer! i hate windows though! i just want a fucking de that mimicks explorer out of the box! but i dont want to use pclinux or w/e pre shitty distro - i love netinstall debian fuck me, g

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>>57148199
My desktop always freezed when I turn on compiz effects, so I didn't try that eyecandy since then. I feel very comfy about the graphic driver of linux (as a kernel of GNU/Linux) nowadays comparing with 4 years ago when the compiz prevails all around.

>>57148440
>My desktop always freezed
A common occurrance under GNU/Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE
Oh man just look at this shit.
I almost, almost, want a desktop like this just for the lels.

Always hated desktop effects. Still do.

Transparency, animations, bother than nonsense.

Spend more time making an efficient interface and less time with bling.

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>>57148454
Especially customized xorg.conf on non-minimalistic distro like Ubuntu which is fond of "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" disease. xorg.conf always drives me crazy as hell.

>Sensible window managers
>Flat UI Design
Is everything becoming dumber and less complex?
Is this a part of a grand brainwashing scheme to reduce intelligence?

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>>57148659
>"If a product needs trainings or a user manual, it is not usable"
David Lamas, Professor of Interaction Design

>>57148659
Just making things more idiot friendly.

Remember when computers came with manuals?

>Remember this meme?
Yes. Wasting time watching unnecessary transition animations has always been a stupid idea and so I never bothered to set it up myself back then, but I did however dabble into writing my own interactive/animated desktop backgrounds for Enlightenment DR17 for sweet desktop bling bling

>>57148702
missing a half os

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>>57148199
>Let's create a feature that will do exactly an already existing function but add lots of bells and whistles, animations and 3D effects and out do Windows at the useless animations that way our system will use so many resources they'll just have to buy a new computer to run the OS alone.

That shit right there is the problem I have had with all OSs since WIndows 95, why the fuck do they try to reinvent the wheel and leave us on perpetual beta testing mode? Windows 95 took less than 100MB in disk space, 98 less than 250MB, Windows 2000 took a whopping 700MB of hard drive. Here comes XP and it takes 1.5GB with no service packs, Windows Vista took I don't even know but it was a lot, and a Windows 7 install takes close to 10GB. Windows 10 takes over 20GB of hard drive and it packs LESS features than Windows XP with a less polished environment.

Linux kept balooning in size along with Windows, KDE 3 and Gnome 3 were such a step backwards in terms of disk space and resource intensity. Does no one in a business environemnt care about resource intensity? We could be doing more with our fast processors if we didn't waste so many resources on simply running an OS, it is really a matter of efficiency. BeOS could on a Pentium 233MHz run full duplex sound and video, you could play several videos at a time on a BeOS system and it wouldn't lag at all, Windows 95 shat on itself trying to do that as well as 98se on the same hardware. I just can't even.

>>57148702
> LLamas
whoa

It must be noted, that whem MS were developing Windows 95, they made actual research.
Do you remember, when they said they made research with Windows 8 or Windows 10?

>>57148886

Apple are the only ones who care about efficiency for consumer tech at least.

>>57148373
I didn't imply anything. Simply stating, most people who seriously used compiz, would chase a laser pointer around the room if given the chance.

>>57148919
I have never used MacOS but you can't be fucking serious, the amount of anti aliasing, 3d effects and animations for opening and closing windows it horrendous use of resources. I can understand why non techies would enjoy/like this, but can't you at least offer us a feature to turn it all off??

>>57148199


but i can sstill do it with kwin

>>57148946

It can afford to use all that shit, on older/weaker hardware and still perform better than a Windows machine of similar price. Look at iPhones for example compared to the horror that is Android.

Compiz was cool.
I remember the rush of trying to get xserver with xgl to work and then aiglx as it worked better.

I had to get it done before I made it to college so my roommate and dormmates would think I was leet.

>>57148886
>our system will use so many resources they'll just have to buy a new computer to run the OS alone.
you fucking retard, the cube didn't use much resources at all. I had a shitty motherboard with VIA chipset, and even that could do it just fine
when microsoft tried to copy it, they did it badly and their implementation sucked

>>57148199
>compiz
Kek, kiddo.

>Beryl

>>57148336
Kek

>>57148218
mememories*

>>57148886
I think this is what annoys me so much about modern computing. They got so fat and pudgy that any advancement in the hardware isn't felt at all by the end user because of all the gunge on top.

Remember when the whole "selling" point of Linux was that it would work great with your old Windows hardware, so you didn't need to upgrade hardware or ever pay for Windows again? That's what got me in to Linux back in 2006 or something.

And now they're wanting to repeat the same mistakes of Microsoft and Apple, and I don't know why. KDE and GNOME developers don't benefit in any way from hardware sales the way that Microsoft or Apple does, so why are they so obsessed with increasing resource draws to force the purchase of new hardware?

>>57148886
Vista took 4GB, you suck for not even knowing that. Leave.

>>57148946
1. apple`s ones are subtle and in fact they don`t use a lot of resources
2. you can turn most of them off as well

I love it how Linux neckbeards can make super ricey Desktops and special effects but still cant code a single good piece of software

>>57149145
See: >>57149049

Linux devs are fucking morons.

>>57149049

>kde and gnome are the only DEs

kys your'e self

>>57148199
tfw this is what got me to try linux back then

>>57148946
Actual work on software not like freetards, it runs fine

>>57148312
>buttmad faggot confirmed
go back to sucking dicks at /bst/ threads dumbass

>>57149189
MATE is a fork of GNOME 2 with visible duct tape keeping it together, and Cinnamon is just a theme for GNOME 3 and still is heavy as fuck for what it is.

GNOME and KDE are the two major desktop environments getting the most attention from developers and those who make distributions.

Yes, having raw openbox and tint2 is much faster, but you shouldn't have to have less going on that Windows 3.11 to get a swift user experience.

But by pretending (?) to miss the point I was making you really got a great zing in. I'll make sure to screencap it and repost it in the next thread about great /g/ moments.

>>57149189
those are the only ones that matter to people without autism

>>57148336
nice

Why not a sphere?

>>57149298
XFCE is a non-autistic allternative
The only good DE to be honesto famiglia

>>57148971
>iphones don't lag

maybe when they're first released, but the OS updates that come years later, yes I know they come, but they have suffered from exactly the same problems as desktop OSs have, they became larger and more resource intensive, a 4S might run IOS9 but it lags and crashes like a motherfucker.

>>57148982
the resource intensity from the versions of ubuntu before and after compiz is very noticible even to a linux noob like me.

>>57149058
>implying I ever wanted to use longhorns in my computer

>>57149142
>you can turn most of them off as well
Did not know that

>>57149217
I know the words you said, but I can't understand what it is that you're trying to convey by the arrangement of those same words.

>>57149375
How about TDE aka KDE 3?

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>>57149329

>>57148336
Good show

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>>57149014
Quinn Storm was literally a crossdressing faggot.

The nigger was a male lesbian, lmfao

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>>57148336

rank these 3 from worst to best

xfce, lxde, lxqt

>>57149375
>last update was over a year ago

It's dead, Jim.

>>57149394
In my mind Trinity and MATE both have the same problem. They're essentially pause buttons and they shouldn't exist in a healthy developing environment. That MATE gets any attention at all should make every one at GNOME hang their head in shame.

Like I said above though, considering these DE's developers get nothing from hardware sales, why would they make them require anything but the bare minimum?

Is there anyway to get the cube to spin automatically at a certain RPM while you're logged in? I don't want this feature on my GNU/Linux if I have to keep pressing a key combination to make it spin.

>>57149464
XFCE is the best of the bunch, but is dead in the water.

>>57149533
>>57149547
>XFCE
Maybe it reached its perfection?

>>57149464
LXDE > XFCE > LXQT

>>57148199
Wasn't that posible in windows too? anyways, it must have made you really mad if after all this years you still remember that and want to told someone, even someone you will never actually meet in person that.

>>57149609
It didn't and you know it. That it uses more resources than Windows 2000 is testament to that.

>>57149682
>you know it
I don't, that's why I ask.
I don't use XFCE.

>>57149618
The problem with LX* is that it uses less resources by simply having less capability. This is not something that applies to 90s operating systems like >>57148702 or even Workbench.

how does one install kde1 on debian 8?

>>57149381

Its nothing to do with OS updates, all it is is terrible NAND performance from the amount of pictures and videos the average person has on their phone at the end of the cycle. My old 5S was running slow, then I almost emptied it and its snappy again, on iOS 10. Don't forget most people go for the lowest storage tier, they fill up quickly.

>>57149714
That's what some people want. LXDE does a fine job of getting out of the way and requires less configuration and pointless wank than most "minimalist" basic WMs. All the capability I need is in the terminal.

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>sick and tired of windows
>install debian
>this is nice
>can't get comfy with any wm/de
>all of 'em feel bloated and clunky

>>57149773
That is such bullshit, I have had older iphones that I have cleaned and reset before applying updates and after applying updates, and the difference in perfomance is not palpable due to used space or having it with pictures and data.

>>57149533
>why would they make them require anything but the bare minimum?
>>57149049
>so why are they so obsessed with increasing resource draws to force the purchase of new hardware?

Reminds me of a discussion I was having with a KDE dev some years back in an IRC. The conversation, for some reason I can't remember, ended up on the Amiga workbench TV story. Basically the developers went out to a shop and asked for the worst TV they had even if it was a rip off, and got the one that even the salesman said was trash. They then used that as the benchmark of their design, knowing that what a customer got would be better than what it was designed for. I asked why they didn't do that with Linux development -- go to a pawn shop and buy the worst laptop/computer they could find, and then use that as their resource benchmark. I remember the reply made me disillusioned with Linux forever because I see it all the time on /g/: hardware is cheap now.

>>57149793
openbox did it for me

This shit was big right when I switched to Linux
>only computer was a Dell Optiplex with upgrades from a bunch of old servers in the garage
>ancient GPU couldn't handle the effects without a bunch of tearing
>I still insisted on using it
Good times

>>57149846
Same thing with my discussion on MSFN forums asking why did windows take so much hard disk space, was told because storage is so cheap.

Now with tablets and having only 32GB of storage, I am amazed they're still ignoring this problem on Surface tablets.

>>57149862
>openbox

Do you ever hate that, in 2016, you need to have what is essentially the GUI of a 70s Xerox machine to get a swift computing experience?

>>57148199
That, and wobbly windows.

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>>57149888
But Microsoft at least benefit from hardware sales. I can't blame them for wanting us to purchase more stuff every release cycle.

>>57149895
what the fuck i hate openbox now

>>57149970
You do know that Openbox wasn't the target of that, right?

At that time it was very impressive, as well as wobbly windows. Now I don't use any effects at all, I think this is sign of gay to burn CPU cycles on visual bells and whistles. It's what Mac OS X does at every new version, just bloating up the system in order for people to buy new Macs with new hardware.

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*tips fedora*

>>57148199
I once had to listen to a guy going on for 30 minutes about how macs sucked and I should use linux because you cant do the compiz cube shit on OSX.

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>>57149905
jej came here to post this

fuckin wobbly windows man

i kind of want wobbly windows back.
is there anything compiz like for plasma?

>>57150055
That makes me so fucking mad. I'm talking blue Sonic arms mad.

>>57150055
I still use wobbly windows on kwin, actually

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The real bloat in UIs is a change from how things are rendered. Boarders and the title bar for example are trivial to draw, even at the time. "Stick a long bar here and make it #hex" is nothing compared to "Put a pretty picture here, here, and here."

>its so popular to this day that winfags got mad that they cant do it so microshit did it so they shut up

>HURR LOOK NOW WE GOT IT LOL WINDOWS IS BETTER MICROSHIT WINS AGAIN

>>57150064
Yeah, kwin's compositor has wobblin' built in dude.
I'm uploading a video to youtube to show u now

SPINNAN CUEBZ

>im oldfag

>>57149959
Shirley you understand the long term implications of such practices?

>>57150031
lol why can't linux devs into UI design?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC5uEe5OzNQ

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>>57148249
Newfriend detected.

>>57150132
Yeah, but pictures are easier and hardware is cheap.

>>57150166
>>57150064
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MCstO8_Fvc

Here check it out dude you can wobble in 2016 easily

>>57150166
dank

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>>57148199
who else /yodm3d/ here? the xp days sure were comfy

>>57150378
>from that same channel
lmfao gimme that stallman skin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ua7__qNi8

>>57148199
GNU is the Donald Drumpf of operating systems
Retards come out of the woodwork supporting it
they shout WANGBLOWS/CRAPPLE BTFO
Then when they get shown that they're on the wrong side of history they sneak back to their parent's attic

I remember when I tried Ubuntu just for Compiz.

That was when I got into Mac OS by trying to install Hackintosh into VPC 2007 aswell.

Spoiler alert: It crashed

>>57150805
At least Trump has an actual jobs plan. What's Hillarys again? Oh yea that's right building a small solar panel factory and hiring 25k illegals to work in it?

Yes i can see how i am on the wrong side of history.

I remember looking up these compiz tutorials years ago. Makes me nostalgic af.

3d cube is without a doubt the best navigation method.

>>57148417
wtf i hate sjw now

>>57150892
desktop wall was actually better but less cool.

metisse's idea of a gigantic space you panned around was also great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P09WLS2a1H0

>>57150231
dear lord i remember this video from years ago.
jesus christ man

>>57150468
That would be cool if you could chuck a 3d model on the back to use as a wallpaper for all of your desktops

>>57151004
you could in compiz

(pardon the autism and poor recording by this autist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXXupyTjpDA

>>57151022
That's cool but also why the fuck is it stuttering like that

>>57150468
And windowblinds. Ricing XP was THE thing to do if you wanted to show off to normalfags back in the day

>>57149275
There's Xfce and LXqt you should try them

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>>57151050
"year of the Linux desktop" isn't a meme
It probably wasn't stuttering like that normally but only when he recorded.

>>57151053
Modern Desktop X is coming soon hopefully. Stardock CEO has been getting real nostalgic on his emails and has been talking about how now is the time where we can begin customizing on Windows 10. Pic is one of my old (2005) Windows desktops

>>57149773
False

My parents ipad 2 runs like ass, they have no pictures or videos. I've updated the OS through the years, it used to be fast on ios6. They have a few games installed that my mom plays, but mostly they use it for email and Facebook

>>57148199
no one actually used that shit, it was just some eye candy shit to show off


anyone remembers the 3d desktop from sun ?

>>57151140
Did you wiped the ipad and made a clean install of the OS?

>>57151209
looking glass?
shit was cool, but my rig at the time struggled to get 15 fps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQ4Nza34ak

>>57148702
I have to be honest, those do look extremely usable. Nothing better than being able to fit most elements you need on screen, all pretty readable and distinguishable.

>>57150231
>plebs will never know that feel of getting wobbly windows, burning windows and spinnin cubez working on linux

year of the linux desktop happened, it was 2007

Anyone remembers bumptop? Bought by google, but throwing icons against each other was pure gold

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>GNUfags were proud of a bloated version of VirtuaWin

>>57151107
I don't have any of my old desktops but that sure takes me back. I'm surprised at how much I didn't care about things like readability and ease of use back then. If it looked cool it would be applied.

These days I just change the wallpaper and I'm golden.

>cairo shell is gonna be cool guys

Also anyone remember the (admittedly unpopular) desktop for Windows where you walked around a house and your files were like pinned on the fridge, you could hang your pictures as paintings, and you would like walk up to your programs to launch them?

The one in particular I remember also let you shoot basketballs into a hoop.

>>57151242
What really sucks is that I'm on Linux Mint (MATE) at that same resolution (1024x768) and I can't fit nearly half as much on screen as comfortably as that.

>>57151309
That's the thing. Of course nowadays there's more focus on supporting resolutions of 1080p and higher so for elements to be very few pixels thick and fonts so, so small they wouldn't want to work on that. You have the "modern" desktops, windows 10 which looks like it has been just designed on paint, unity with its forced elements like the dock at the side, KDE that includes flat defaults because apparently flat is good design these days and gnome which is essentially like OSX, defaults making screen state seem like something you can waste. And then all these i3wm fags and so on.

I find a bit weird that these days every single desktop environment has these weird defaults.

>>57151297
Who could forget microsoft bob
(for which Comic Sans was developed, btw)

mfw i still use the desktop cube

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>>57148199
The irony is, you can't do that in Linux anymore. Compiz somehow changed from a WM into a compositing manager used by/with an existing WM. So, it makes things transparent but no 3d cube. Bummer. Le sad monkey.

>>57152125
Kwin still has the cube plugin.

Anybody remember the Compiz cloth physics when dragging windows around? There has never been a valid reason to use that bloat.

>>57151297
god Microsoft Bob was fucking awesome. Stupid, but awesome.

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>>57148417
Source?

>>57148946
They do bells and whistles, but they also care about efficiency. I agree with anon that they're one of the only consumer companies that cares about efficiency.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/06/how-os-x-mavericks-works-its-power-saving-magic/

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/15/

>>57149381
I learned my lesson from all the horror stories. Kept my 5 on iOS 8 and am keeping my 5S on iOS 8. Still as snappy as when I bought it. (The 5 lost some speed from 6 to 7 but no noticeable difference from 7 to 8).

>>57149888
MS actually brought out NTFS compression on the OS for Win10 becuase of tablets.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windows-10-shaves-off-gigabytes-with-selective-system-file-compression/

>>57149049
>>57149846
I like you, Anons. I bring a gift that someone gave me on /g/ a few weeks ago.

https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/like-tears-in-the-rain/

I only read a few articles but this guy gets me. I hope he'll get you.

Still, there is some truth to "hardware is cheap". You know how much even a bottom-rung programmer is? Tester? Are these people supposed to volunteer to optimize Linux code? All to save some poorfag $20? Seriously, a $20 used desktop every few years can provide a decent upgrade each time. I don't believe in buying a new computer every year (for normies) because "facebook is slow now". But for reasons of power efficiency and sanity, it makes sense to upgrade every 3-10 years. Eventually you'll use more in power than it costs to replace it. Imagine using an old-ass Pentium 4 PC now instead of moving on to something better.

>tfw Raspberry Pis and similar single-board computers, or phones and tablets are more powerful than late 90s PCs
>tfw if the Internet wasn't bloatware, normies could have good computing for less than $100

>>57148199
it was great when every mention of Ubuntu was met with spammed replies of SPINNAN CUBES

This shit blew my mind when I was just getting started with Linux.

Also spring RTS.

fucking hell, this thread...
nostalgia'd hard

>>57152125
as has been mentioned many times already, KDE has lots of these effects

>>57152125
compiz was always 2 parts, a compositor and a decorator

>>57152367
*compositor+wm*

>>57148199
The first time I installed Ubuntu was because of this effect and the fire windows many years ago.

Funny thing is that I never got compiz to work

Desktop cube and wobbly windows were the best Linux memes

>>57149047
kek

I understood the reference as I read you're pun. Thanks, anon, for that Jolly Guffaw.

>>57150870
Found the Freetard

>>57150197
This. Haters will hate because they were educated stupid.

I wonder what Linus himself thought about the cube at the time...

S P I N N A N
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>>57149793
I don't use Debian, but I enjoy LXDE with Lubuntu. A bit clunky but feels like home (Windows 98 / 2000). I use it on my poorfag PC, not my day-to-day PC, so your results may vary.

MATE is okay too.

>>57150231
>3:39
This shit would be great as a prank or malware

>>57152263
>to save some poorfag $20

That's not the point man, the point is why can I run full duplex simultaneous videos on a Pentium 1@233MHz in one OS but can't do it with another OS until it has well above 500MHz, in effect the software makes it possible to do more with less. There is a video that shows an Amiga computer, which I know nothing of, rendering/playing 3D ball and multitasking at the same time, before Windows 3.1 was a thing and you really couldn't do it on any other OS back then unless you had massive resources.

The simple principle of conserving resources means that it leaves more for the user to use for whatever they need. I can to a point accept that programs are poorly programmed, I have a really hard time accepting my OS to be so poorly coded that it consumes such a large portion of resources just to work.

>>57148946
Their shit is actually very lightweight compared to others. They are very minimal about the majority of their effects. They even run fast software rendered.

>>57153509
That 3d ball was a clever hack and not 3d at all.
Not that it necessarily devalues your post just thought you'd like to know

I used to have that tied to Super + Mouse Wheel left/right.
Was a nice/fun way to switch between stuff.

>>57153576
I didn't know that, I know nothing about amiga and I had a hard time imagining a machine with such low specs be able to achieve that animation but I am not technical enough to know about it, sorry.

But that ability to run multimedia on beos is what made the system so magical to me, I had Windows XP abilities on my very old AMD K6-II 350MHZ which could not run Windows XP acceptably. Windows XP was for me the threshold of this transformation that you were going to be forced to buy hardware to get things done.

I had a P2C 2.30GHZ bought it several years ago and it worked great until about 2012 when it struggled to load webpages, fucking webpages man, like WTF? Bad code is a plague, we shouldn't need so many resources to use the internet, we shouldn't need so many resources just to have a word processor in our PCs because the OS requires it. I think it is crazy that I have to have such a "high performing" processor in order to use the web without lagging.

>>57149714
Exactly, and this is why I stick with mate. It's not the best thing ever, especially with the gtk2/3 crap, but it's not crippled yet it's light as fuck. Why can't modern DEs do this?

>>57148199
Anything that slows down workflow is bad UI.

Any GUI animation should be just long enough to signal clearly to user what is happening (switching desktop, file moving, window minimizing, etc.) and not a microsecond longer.

OP is an extremely bad UI since it took more than a second to switch desktop. It's forcing the user to wait through the same, unskippable cut scene dozens of time every day. Decreased productivity and increased user frustration are signs of extremely poor UI design.

>>57148336
This took me a moment

>>57153755
>this is what wintards believe

>>57153931
No, I actually took an undergraduate UI/UX course with a professor who is well regarded in the UI research field.

>>57153955
Not him, I understand the whole if you need a user manual then its bad design thing.

How do you take that concept into the CLI world?

>>57154065
I was the one who made this comment.
>>57153755

>>57154094
Uh... so you dont know how answer my question?? I don't understand.

>>57153755
this is true. the cube gets annoying after a short while. it also shifts one's attention to some shitty cube

>>57154114
What I said about GUI.

CLI has different philosophy and different user set.

>>57154146
Oh ok, that actually answers my question. Is there any work done on CLI "philosphy" i could go look at?

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>>57154138
>the cube
CUBE

SPINNAN

>>57148199
See, it wasn't the cube we bragged about, it was the multiple desktops. But those aren't standard either, right? RIGHT?!

>>57154163
idk

I think vast majority of the UI research on GUI.

>>57154222
Seems like a wasted opportunity. GUI seems, in a way, obvious if you have Common Sense 2016 installed in your system. And for all the people getting into "classes" for UI/UX the UIs have been getting worse for power users if not for all.

>>57148886
install gentoo

>>57152420
>you're pun.
>you are pun

>>57148199
jesus christ i remember this. i installed ubuntu on my pentium 4 beacuse itd shut down randomly

>>57148886
XP increased in size by a lot because it had a shit-ton of drivers added by default to increase plug n play compatibility. But I do agree with Vista+ they really shit the bed.

>>57148199
Oh shit, I remember this, I was a kid and my father installed fedora.
I thought it looked cool as fuck
When I installed ubuntu a few weeks ago I was kinda hoping this feature was still existing

>>57148456
kek at this video. He syncs his actions with the music and it's hilarious

>>57148199
>having this compiz cube desktop, the GNUfags were all proud of it,
Its only cool if the windows burn when you close them.

>wintrolls are still mad they dont have something this fucking awesome
I really wish 4chan would just block all Microsoft owned IP addresses already.

>>57148886
>Windows 10 takes over 20GB of hard drive and it packs LESS features than Windows XP with a less polished environment.
kek

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>>57149014
>Beryl
6.06

Back in the day when everyone ran XP it was truly impressive. Vista was around but nobody liked vista, and Macs weren't as widespread. I got a few mates in school to install Ubuntu thanks to the spinnan cueb

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>>57149014
>>57154674
Do a beryl roll!

>>57151287
I'm still using the default wallpaper it came with, it's not like I really spend any time looking at it and it's pretty unoffensive.

>>57154535
Im sorry... what???

Lets assume for the sake of argument that the drivers are a total of 600mb, theyre not, but lets say they are.. its still more than double of WinME and Win2K that largely had the same driver pack.

I used to fuck around with nlite a lot, most reductions would result in a broken system because reasons, a lot of networking components would take a couple hundred megabytes. Granted XP possibly along with 2000 was most stable NT based OS. But still why so much code for so little functionality, its almost as if theres extra code/extra shit running in the background that we can't see, like a NSA built in recorder looking for specific shit. What you see in Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 does not justify the amount of space that it consumes in your hard drive.

>>57154574
Windows has it as part of a desktop manager. Look up Dexpot.

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is this the new desktop thread???

>>57155404
Quit shitposting

>>57148199
i miss the wobbly windows =(

>>57155409
Never fucking reply to me again unless you are contributing to the thread.

>>57155404
>>57155409
rekt

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>>57148199
Ayyyyyyyyy

>>57155418
__ pls

>>57148702
>10gb hard drive
Damn, you made me feel a feel I haven't felt in at least 10-15 years.

>>57148886
One of the big reasons for the sudden balloon was that, with the release of Windows 2000, Microsoft started packing tons of drivers for plug and play hardware. Before that, you'd have to install a driver from a CD just to use a thumb drive.

With more hardware categories out in the world today, with each category potentially hundreds of thousands of permutations of hardware, with each hardware permutation potentially having hundreds of thousands of driver versions for compatibility.... You get the point. All of this modern day plug/play compatibility we all enjoy adds up.

I remember trying to impress a girl with when I was like 13. this was back in 2008, my uncle fucked her instead.

>>57155506
i feel you man, fuck uncles i wish they all just burn in hell all at once

>>57155367
Oh you've built your own OS from the ground up and therefor know how big it should be?
Just because you lack a proper explanation doesn't mean its mah NSA/Backdoor

>>57155516
sometimes they fuck you instead

>>57151107
>Stardock CEO has been getting real nostalgic on his emails
What emails?
>now is the time where we can begin customizing on Windows 10
If this is true, and he's willing to devote resources to make Object Desktop great again, I have some hope. But, then again, the main reason why I stopped using Windowblinds for ricing was that all of the good UI/UX designers left the scene to develop iOS apps, leaving behind "Master Skinner" shills.

>>57151255
>Anyone remembers bumptop?
It was alright. Kinda gimmicky imo.

>>57151297
>cairo shell
Dude I had so much hype for that! Too bad they didn't deliver before ricing died out.

>>57155501
>muh integrated drivers

If you ever used nlite to reduce windows xp youd know that removing all the added on drivers doesnt help you reduce the OS install by that large of a significant amount.

anyone remember ubuntu satanic edition lmao? or apartheid the KKK distro

>>57155417
Never reply again unless you are showing me boobs.

>>57152263
I was probably the one that posted it. I was a big reader of K. Mandla's blog (and his other one, Inconsolation, a catalogue of terminal hardware) and since I use an old laptop myself (A Thinkpad T60, actually) I got a lot of useful programs from him. I don't go as far as he does, but when screen size is an issue (1024x768 screen) having a workspace with just an open terminal with a multiplexor running a bunch of things I use a lot works wonders for keeping Writer or Firefox working smoothly.

So yeah, check out their other blog as well.
https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/

>>57153668
It's really fun to think that in the BBS days you could have about 20 years of hardware all playing on the same field, with minimal change in experience.

>>57148199
>windows key+tab

>>57148199
Freetards wasting time on useless garbage. Some things never change.

>>57156410
>enjoying things is bad
I mean come on, computers and graphics devices are so much more powerful now, there's no reason I shouldn't have my fucking wobbly windows!

>>57148199
I wish windows had this....
The fucking feels man

I used to have this feature on my kubuntu. felt like a badass when doing stuff on my pc and it was comfy af aswell.

Man 3d cube was the tightest shit. I remember when a friend said that vista could do it, but linux couldn't, and therefore linux was crap

still makes me mad

>>57152263
I think the "new hardware is cheap" stance is very irresponsible in an environmental sense. Time has been very kind to the capabilities of hardware from the early-mid 2000s onwards, so there's no reason not to retain it and keep using it.

It's not like how it was in previous years. Technology (for a home user) has plateaued rather considerably. Remember how hard MS had to work to get people to leave XP?

>>57148929
Compiz had a lot of insanely over the top stuff, but it's possible to use it tastefully like transparent blur to give a frosted glass effect or just some of the glide transitions. Using Compiz doesn't mean you have to go full retard ripple 3d cube flaming sparkles with airplane flying transitions.

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>>57155576
In the latest Stardock magazine Brad was being pretty chill and down to Earth instead of corporate/robotic.
Pic related (check out my high fps in firefox too)

>>57155596
It wasn't what we asked for, but cairo shell did eventually release. Not half as cool as it was supposed to be though.

I still use compiz every day. Expose and all workspaces zoom out -feature are really handy and enable me to complete my job faster. Also I've run them on my current top of the line thinkpad for half a year now, since I bought it, and never had a problem.

>>57148199
>This was super popular years ago, having this compiz cube desktop, the GNUfags were all proud of it, "can Windows do this 3D cube desktop???"
It was never popular, it was tacky as fuck and it was just a /g/ meme, OP.

You fell for the meme.

>>57156879
>top of the line thinkpad
oxymoron

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>>57148702
>tfw windows will never be as perfect as 2000 was

I liked the snow plugin most compositors had half a decade ago. Can't find shit for kwin now though. Fuck that.

>>57157085
why not xsnow?

>>57157094
Does it work in wayland? I guess it's also rendering on cpu so how's that consumption? I will look into it, thanks.

>>57157112
Dunno, never used faggot shit like that.
Except xroach, which was cool af

>>57157094
>>57157112
>>57157122
Doesn't work, it needs a visible root window. That shit got deprecated long ago on modern DEs. Oh well.

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>>57156321
Yes?

>>57148312
>Being this BTFO

>>57157171
It's such a waste that they got rid of that. Not that I'd use 8 or 10, but still.

>>57148355
ring switcher is okay tho