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[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 88 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

Impressing the neighborhood kids with my windows with jiggle physics.

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Don't mind the missing V-Sync, I haven't gotten Xorg to do that yet. But it's cool, right? Right?"

[-] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 13 points 2 years ago

Those window wobbles are SO HOT

[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Roshakk@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago

This and the wobbly windows

[-] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Oh god, yes

[-] thelemonalex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you, came here for this exact comment.

[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago

It was really cool configuring the compiz cube for a weekend. It was tailored to perfection! Then I figured how useless it actually was.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] ReCursing@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Eh, I've never mined it

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 0 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Swim@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago

ahhh this brings compiz fusion warm and fuzzies

[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Compiz was cool, but beryl was the coolest thing ever made. No discussion

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I feel called out

[-] geoff@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago
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[-] snake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This looks interesting. Possibly an alternative to the outdated (albeit still functional) Compiz.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I still use gnome with the 3D cube extension. It was cool in 2006 and it's cool now.

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lol yeah people today complain about bad GPU drivers. Different world back then.

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago
[-] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago
[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

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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[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Please tell me someone remembers yCube

[-] TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

and then they fucked it up with Wayland.....

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Isn't wayfire a compiz descendant for wayland?

[-] geoff@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

It is exactly that. I don’t understand the hate…Wayland is vastly better, less complex and more secure at the fundamentals of running an accelerated window system.

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