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- shrewduser, on 10/22/2007, -3/+47for the record my specs are thusly:
Pentium D 805 (2.6 ghz) Geforce 7600GS , 1gb generic DDR2 RAM. - deadbaby, on 10/22/2007, -6/+37It's amazing how the Linux desktop GUI (KDE, GNOME or whatever you like to use) has grown so much in the last 2 years. I remember when Linux's UI was a complete embarrassment now it's blowing Vista & OSX out of the water. The ability to control every detail of the 3D engine really lets you be creative on how your desktop looks and works. I have my Linux machine fine tuned for the best mix of eyecandy and performance -- when I go back to OSX or Windows I feel very limited now.
- ViceVirtue, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Compiz Fusion and WINE are just amazing!
Someone ought to upload a video of it running CS:Source (simply because it's a direct-X game). - AngryBacon, on 10/11/2007, -5/+30It's modest by vista standards :D
- Felshadow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Thats not a modest computer :P although, i can do this with my Pentium 4 (2 ghz) Radeon 9600, and 1 gb of ram.
- MrSarcasm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16lol, "modest" 1gb RAM and GF 7 series ;)
I have 512MB of RAM and GeForce 4 and run XP on it just fine. (and also Feisty in dual boot) - Snarfy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+20Ironically, sitting here running kubuntu feisty 64 bit + compiz fusion, I cannot watch the video :(
Flash player is STILL not supported under Linux 64 bit?!? wtf? I have everything working except for youtube :(. - MrSarcasm, on 10/11/2007, -8/+21It's digg - every 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 WINE release gets to the front page, every compiz/beryl video gets to the front page, and also every "I can run firefox on linux" story gets here. Actually, I'm pretty surprised there's no "Ubuntu" in the title :/
- dark_ryan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Hey, Vista Aero uses more system resources than Linux Beryl or now Compiz Fusion. Let's just say that's being kind :D
- speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10I have a crappy dell laptop with VERY crappy integrated intel graphics and only 512 mb of ram and it can run everything smoothly, including Expo and desktop cube with transparency, everything without lowering settings. I've tested running firefox, opera, thunderbird, pidgin, vlc playing a dvd, openoffice, amarok, and wine running a graphics demo app
Note: this is my crappy old laptop, my new one with 2 gigs of ram and a more powerful video card is able to run counter strike and alot of other things also =) i highly recommend trying compiz fusion. there is a howto guide here:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Compiz_Fusion_How_to/all - hatchetj, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16that is utterly spectacular. doesn't run quite as well as that on my Pentium M 1.5ghz laptop, but its still just as useful. i leave all the pretty stuff that doesn't help productivity turned off and it runs just fine. it doesn't seem to like avi's that are a little too big, just get a blue box, but youtube vids work great.
Vista won't run well with all that pretty stuff it boasts completely turned off... - SatNav, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10nope. you can have compiz, beryl and fusion all installed on one system. though obviously you can only run one at a time.
- Spuy767, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9By Vista standards, My 8 core Mac Pro is a modest computer.
- Ac1d, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Try doing half the stuff that compiz fusion can do on "any other OS", you probably won't get far.
- custerfluck, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9One of the best things about GNU/Linux is you don't have to install daily like windows.
- Jugalator, on 10/11/2007, -13/+20The reason there's no special slowdowns is because it's hardware accelerated, so that's why it's so "amazing". Now, sorry if sounding like a pompous geek, but what's new here? I think I saw the first rotating desktops and jumping windows with multimedia and games playing at least over a year ago? Why did this suddenly make Digg now? Am I missing something here? Was it for some unknown reason to me expected that e.g. WINE would run worse on compiz?
- sephiroth965, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Do I have to uninstall Beryl before I install Compiz Fusion? (I know this isn't a support forum but it's just a single yes or no question.)
- ptFoe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The Expose plugin a bloody awesome it is so easy to manage your workspaces.
It looks so damn sexy too. - google01103, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8What's amazing here isn't that Compiz is a great productivity enhancer but that it can be run an just about any recent computer (and older) with an integrated graphics processor and 64mb of shared memory whereas Vista needs (per the press and Dell's website) 2 gb ram, 256mb video card and a fast processor.
- yoranyo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9snarfy: Use this link to get your flash working. Make sure you don't have 2 flash plugins in .mozilla directory.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341727
Or you can run 32 bit firefox that will solve the problem and everything will work. That's what I use. I don't notice any difference in running either ones. I have both 32 bit and 64 bit installed. Java and google toolbar's bookmarks are broken in 64 bit. That's why I have to use 32 bit.
Good Luck.
By the way ubuntu + beryl Rock! - GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Both, there's a skill to juggling CS and OOo
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Every time there's a Beryl/Compiz story, jasoncox the microsoft fanboy comes to the rescue!
- edoo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I thought the video was interesting. I like to see what type of performance people are getting on specific types of system.
- wafflez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@flakmonkey..
you haven't heard of celeron then have you? - scabbers, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7This helps your productivity or counter-strike skill?
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You chose the wrong option :) You chose the option to completely erase all data....
- TritonX, on 10/22/2007, -0/+5Nice, you learned a lots of things at once. You should be thankful to Ubuntu ;).
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Remember though, the screen capture program slows things down a lot. I'm amazed how fast it ran considering.
- shakin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I've got a GF4 MX and 768 MB RAM and can run all Compiz Fusion effects perfectly. Vista, however, is not such a nice experience.
- CompIsMyRx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Erg. Trevino should include amd64 builds of compiz-fusion!
- superyounan1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Compiz fusion is the new exciting thing now, so its going to get to the front page. But he could have shown the "multitasking prowess" better by showign off the grouptab plugin, which is new, and maybe moving winodws around in expo
- VIR3NT, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Obviously this guy hasn't tried linux lately, its much easier to install, only takes about 15-20 mins for ubuntu, and is very easy to use. Much easier than windows since you don't have to go out finding a browser, chat client, firewall, antivirus software, etc.
- Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You can have compiz-fusion/beryl or compiz/breyl, but fusion uses many of the same paths as compiz vanilla, so unless someone heavily mods it its either or.
- blackoper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4follow the manual guide from this page. I got flash with sound working fine in 64 bit firefox http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202537
- gavintlgold, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4For those who don't know: Flash player is not supported on 64-bit ONLY because Flash hasn't released it. If it were an open source project there would of course be support for it.
- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If you are sick of them, why watch the videos? Oh I see, so that you can troll afterwards about how how sick of them you are.
- superyounan1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I was able to install it and run it without removing beryl first, but make sure beryl isnt set to start on boot. However I did have to remove it in order to use my emerald themes with Fusion, so it would probably be best
- init100, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Okay. Pentium D is the second worst processor line Intel has ever released, only surpassed by the Celeron line. Satisfied? :)
- killerofkiller, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5pentium D and a Geforce 7xxx are not modest..
- phenolholic, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3someone that pays for music, runs xp media center, and refers to a hardware powered window handler that sits on X11 as "stupid little animations" shouldnt have the balls to install ubuntu until he learns a thing or two about his OS with the "stupid little animation" launcher dubbed 'xp media center''
- SatNav, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Linux Envy?
- mrmacky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It's so special and just hitting digg now because Compiz *Fusion* was just released, the re-merge of the Beryl/Compiz split. Regardless there are lot's of new effects in Fusion that were non existent in the Beryl and Compiz forks.
- oracleofmist, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Its making front page because beryl merged back with compiz and all their cool plugins are getting put into compiz and better integration to the desktop
- 35263526, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3Er... Hate to break it to you, but Quartz Extreme (the thing that does those cool effects in a usable fashion) needs a GPU to run; in fact, it's my understanding that without hacking, it won't even let you do it with a PCI GPU, even if the card itself is capable.
Plus, as good a job as OS 10 does, it doesn't have anywhere near the level of customisability or the number of plugins as Compiz/Beryl/Fusion. - phaed, on 10/22/2007, -0/+3You meant to say you forgot to read the screen, started clicking around haphazardly, and inadvertently erased my hard-drive didn't you?
- DPyro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4It's kinda funny how the linuxtards had this thing already up and running before the other OS's had it.
- 13thMonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3There's lots of very configurable shortcuts and mouse actions that allow you to, for example, move windows to new desktops, tab and group windows, get live thumbnails of windows, switch between/view apps on all/one desktop etc. I find myself trying to do it on my Windows and my old Linux box that doesn't support compiz/beryl - my mouse has to travel a lot further on those PCs.
Plus some of the effects are nice to look at (though you'll find you'll probably turn some of them off after half an hour and never use them again). Best thing you can do is play with it for half an hour to see what it can do. - phaed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is a small section of the population that is so incompetent they should not be given complete power over their system. These people, left to their own devices would, time-permitting end up destroing whatever they get their hands on. You sir should buy a Mac.
- carl25, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2no offense but. Cs 1.6 ? yeaaa that's not demanding at all and he wasn't even playing the game. It was a demo vid playing.
Still think some of that stuff is cool though - StealthTomato, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Reminds me of how Compiz had the main selling features of Vista.
Feelin' the burn yet, fanboys? -
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