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
But with different desktops everything feels so isolated. Everything is forgotten because it’s put out of the way. Same with icon only task bars, and grouped windows. I can’t imagine how anyone works like that without seeing the things that are open. Like it seriously makes me angry that people work that way
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
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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.
The more you know https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
I was curious and tried to find a modern remake, but just found this dead Github repository: https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv
It’d be interesting to see done with modern accelerated video hardware.
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https://www.piped.video/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Please tell me someone remembers yCube
