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- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Rivals? As far as I can see XGL goes above and beyond quartz in every way. Although the quartz effects are nice and don't clutter your desktop, XGL is far more customisable and has a much greater number of effects available.
- Darqfaux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15XGL is awesome. I'm a mac fanatic, but rivals Quartz and Expose!
- playerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Now, to clear things up, xgl doesn't do any effects it's just an opengl-accelarated X server. Compiz has all the effects, taking advantage of a 3d accelarated X server.
- Wojzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@ sinfony
I don't know why you think XGL/Compiz does not support multiple monitors, I've been running XGL/Compiz on a dual 21" setup for 8+ weeks - fungifred, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15But, number of effects and customizable features is not everything, if you need convincing, check out a 14 year old girl's Xanga or Myspace.
- srusso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This marks the day... all hear me DIGG.COM I will no longer be a windows junkie!!! These will be the last words on this recently infected system! Truly no software is available to fix my system! I have Symantec Corp, Spy-bot and all kinds of reg cleaners, all setup to run 3 times a day since my computers infection and still as I type stupid popups from symantec asking if I want to remove this virus that it really cant truly remove anyway! I don't want to have this crap anymore... Tonight!! Ubuntu is born!!
- jamez515, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It's nice to see what Linux is turning into. Distros like ubuntu are becoming more user friendly by the day. This article really illustrates this transformation. Open XGL is awesome.
- Awal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Ubuntu has ntfs read support out of the box. Write support is what the guide is needed for. Its great for dual booters.
- jessejoedotcom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Removing the system beep? Is that really in the top 10 tweaks or just something that bugs him? I lvoe the system beep.
- atmclipse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It already is fixed and is in the Ubuntu repositories. In fact they had the fix very quickly from what I understand.
- Darqfaux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Mejogid I would have to agree. XGL is much more customizable.
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dont be scared. Its not hard. Download the iso and boot into the desktop cd. You wont touch your windows install and you can still try out ubuntu. If you then want to install it to your hdd, its a very simple 10 minute installation and should basically be working 100% out of the box unless you have some weird hardware.
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you are going to miss computer graphics and programming in a Unix environment? Weird....almost everybody programs in Unix.
- colklink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well, I was "working" in the command line on my laptop one time while my boss was babbling on during a meeting and ran into why sometimes the system beep should be disabled:
"So, our goals for next week will...*BEEP*..." --- everyone looks at me...
Boy was that embarrassing! =) - tcybulski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah, xgl/compiz is a major pain in the ass to set up at the start, but it is SO worth it.
- fogster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't know about you, but I *like* interesting links.
- crash331, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Good luck with it. It installed flawlessly on my laptop and I love it.
- alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4OMFG!!!
XGL COMPIZ IS AMAZING!
how did I not find out about this earlier?! - gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Apple's multi-head implimentation of Expose sucks. I basically have to disable it because it is ignorant of my other monitors. The XGL implimentation seems useful and 10.5 seems to have this fixed (sadly i ran out of bank-dvds to try it out).
- Corvillus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, everything on Lifehacker is a blog about "lifehacks", which are any tips or tricks that will boost your productivity (and these could for Ubuntu users). So any time you see the word "hack" on that site, that's what they're referring to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifehack - muya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Standard for a widescreen 16:10. I'll try tomorrow.
- muya, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Can it get me a 1440x900 res without editing ***** conf files?
- wafflesomd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These might be cool, if the recent xorg update didnt kill my install....
Even the nice fix posted on the site didnt seem to help.
Now I'm stuck with a livecd till its fixed. - MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't want to discourage you from switching to Ubuntu or anything, but if you can't do something simple, like keep XP clean and virus free, you're probably not smart enough to run Linux. I mean, if you love clicking on strange files in your torrent downloads like "keylogger.exe" and "virus.exe" so much that your XP install is hopelessly screwed, good luck with the shell.
I haven't had any spyware problems since SP2, but I'm slowly switching to Ubuntu anyway. I'm finding that it's a lot easier to avoid viruses in XP than it is to learn Linux. - mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great tips, I am giving Ubuntu a chance as much as I am going to miss doing computer graphics and some programming on Windows.
I would have thought a Dual screen management software similar to UltraMon on XP will be suggested. I searched around but can't find nothing simple or concrete. Anybody? - tcybulski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it depends on what kind of graphics card you have, i think. i couldn't get 1650x950(?) until i installed specific graphics card drivers.
- shaolinpunks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+210. XGL/Compiz = Purdiest graphics you've seen in a while
man that looks great to bad the linked site is down at the moment or i'd install it.
maybe later!!!! - Xilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This has probably been mentioned before but... how the HELL are they Ubuntu applications? Some are Gnome, some are KDE, so by definition they aren't for Ubuntu because ubuntu doesn't use KDE or it's libraries (I'm talking about a standard install). It's Linux people, not Ubuntu...
- fogster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is NTFS write support [i]stable[/i]? It's been a while, but last time I was compiling the Linux kernel, there was an option for experimental NTFS write support, which the description called "DANGEROUS" (in all caps). Needless to say, I did not try it.
Has NTFS support matured? How does it handle Windows' encryption and ACLs? - 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So does that mean I can update now? The forums are still touting the psuedo-fix.
- fatas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Most of them aren't even hacks but just installing apps.
- Xilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Don't get me wrong, I love ubuntu, it's my main OS, but I just hate it when people talk about Ubuntu instead of linux in general, it gives newbies a wrong impression of the linux world. The great thing about linux is that you can customise it till your fingers bleed. It doesn't matter which distro you use.
- Zerocool82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1All the programs they listed are not hacks. But automatrix. This is just stupid but I like hearing about more people doing things on ubuntu.
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11920x1200 works on the three laptops ive tried it on. 1280x800 also worked on another laptop.
@ the above comment, the res is 1680x1050 and the reason you werent able to get it working is because your video card is incapable of that high of a resolution unless it is in 3d mode. It would be the same way in windows as well until you install your video drivers. - Corvillus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try playing around with VLC's output plugins. Some of them don't work properly with XGL and will cause crashes in some configurations.
- MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kopete is not a suitable replacement for XGL/Compiz.... and Ubuntu already has Gaim.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was a pretty good article, though with Automatix as number one and pretty much everything else installed with Automatix it makes you wonder how much research was really done :p
Certainly a good pointer for beginners. Anyone who didn't RTFA - don't forget www.getautomatix.com - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1compiz.net FTW
Ive seen quite a few dual monitor setups there, and im sure theres a guide in the how-to section - evilseth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe everything on lifehacker is considered a hack? automatix is an amazing app and it actually knocks out a couple others on the list.
i'll give it a digg. - qurk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was just thinking the exact same thing. A former coworker (friend now) tried Frozen Bubble on like a knoppix cd boot, and before I knew it she was ordering the newest version of SuSE linux, and her daughter got hooked by FB as well.
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- Iandefor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I don't know about you, but I *like* interesting links."
Fair enough. It *is* fun to find random interesting links on Digg, but it does get a little tiresome to me when Digg gets used as a shameless plug for someone's blog. - Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...hack attack? god dammit.
- veritech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would also recommend, setting up VMware player to run windows, so you can run anything that you can't find a replacement for. If you search around you can find the guides, using qemu, and the vmx file from a previous vm, ide the linux browser appliance
- veritech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use windows IDE in VMware on Linux, so yes everyone does, lol
- Flamekebab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Switch Kopete with Firefox? After all, FF is installed OOTB.
- standalonematt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kubuntu has a selection for Generic LCD 1440x900 - but yes with ubuntu it is a pain - you have to edit the xorg.conf. This is something I really hope gets fixed soon.
- uzusan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The great thing with ubuntu (and many of the other distro's that use package managers) is that if you want to use a kde application (like say ktorrent for instance) the you just install it from synaptic (or apt-get) and it installs all the relevant files.
I dont have the kde desktop installed on my ubuntu install but i use a fair few kde apps.
A lot of them are interchangeable. -
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