Microsoft sneaks out stealth updates

[Crispy]

have they managed to make a non-microsoft OS that morons can use yet?

Yeah, mac OSX
But it's not exactly the cheap option (£399 for the lowest spec mac mini, £499 for the reasonable one)

 

[Structaural]

or Hackintosh with a cheap intel.

 

[Crispy]

or Hackintosh with a cheap intel.

Is that 100% stable yet? It was messy as hell last time I tried playing with it - esp. video drivers.

 

[Structaural]

Probably not (considering the effort apple put in to stop it), I didn't have a powerful enough PC to try it on.

 

[stdPikachu]

Anyone used Beryl on unix yet?

Tried it out on one of my desktops, and sometimes use Compiz Fusion under Gutsy at the moment - although I think they're wrong to enable it by default, as AFAIC it's nowhere nearly stable enough - many users still experience crashes daily.

Some of Beryl/Compiz is just eye candy, but some of the functionality (particularly WRT to virtual desktop switching) is really useful. My advice is to disable all the blingy animations and replace them with simple fades or what have you.

That said, I imagine I'll switch to using bog standard kwin once they add their AIGLX gizmometers.

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