• Ptsf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The massive cursor during shake is literally what sold two of my friends on Garuda getting them off Windows 😂 idk why I guess the wimsy factor is difficult to account for.

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      2 months ago

      The cube thing from compiz had a similar effect back in the earlier years of Ubuntu.

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            2 months ago

            Some of the effects have become mainstream. But there is no comparison to the real Compiz feel.
            For instance the original Emerald windows dresser was amazing, and zooming with the scroll wheel combined with for instance the left win key was extremely useful. The smoothness and configurability of the cube was crazy cool.

            What is available today is hollow shells of what we had.
            Yes I use wobbly windows in KDE, but Compiz is 100x > Plasma.

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              2 months ago

              Writing fire on the desktop and window animations like burn up on exit were also awesome.

              KDE cube always feels like watching a b-movie version starwars. Nailed the wobbly windows though.

              Compiz and cairo-dock is peak nostalgic linux for me. Tux surfing around the dock and all.