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.
86Impressing the neighborhood kids with my windows with jiggle physics.
51Those window wobbles are SO HOT
13"Don't mind the missing V-Sync, I haven't gotten Xorg to do that yet. But it's cool, right? Right?"
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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.
44I'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
9Same! 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.
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This and the wobbly windows
36I 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.
11Oh god, yes
5Thank you, came here for this exact comment.
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ahhh this brings compiz fusion warm and fuzzies
22Compiz was cool, but beryl was the coolest thing ever made. No discussion
20I feel called out
19I 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!
13Whaaaaat?
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Wayfire is actually fire https://youtu.be/Ban7wspkrNQ?list=PLb7YRKEhWEBUIoT-a29UoJW9mhfzjpNle
12Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/Ban7wspkrNQ?list=PLb7YRKEhWEBUIoT-a29UoJW9mhfzjpNle
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
3This looks interesting. Possibly an alternative to the outdated (albeit still functional) Compiz.
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I still use gnome with the 3D cube extension. It was cool in 2006 and it's cool now.
8Lol yeah people today complain about bad GPU drivers. Different world back then.
4I 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.
4golf?
1Please tell me someone remembers yCube
1It was really cool configuring the compiz cube for a weekend. It was tailored to perfection! Then I figured how useless it actually was.
1and then they fucked it up with Wayland.....
-2It's the future. Even the X11 developers say use Wayland. Get. On. Board.
10No :)
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Isn't wayfire a compiz descendant for wayland?
4It 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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