A new desktop OS!
My venerable old Windows XP workstation has received a temporary upgrade in the OS department… Windows Vista has been installed!
The only snafu’s have been the normal ones… For some reason no version of windows wants to recognize my Promise Ultra133 IDE card during install. The post-install configure tool found 90% of the hardware installed on the system, which was a surprise. A very smooth install overall.
The first thing you notice about the OS is the Glitz [TM], but once you get used to it you start to notice the little things. A searchable Start menu, for instance. The iconified Alt+Tab menu. Even the security alerts aren’t bothering me (yet)… it’s nice to know what’s happening on the system.
I’ll likely post more impressions after I’ve used the OS for a bit longer, but so far Vista is scoring good points in my books.
June 12th, 2006 at 7:13 am
I think compiz is the same idea as Glitz [TM] by the sounds of it. I don’t know if Glitz [TM] could be half as nice as compiz, though. KDE used to have a searchable start menu (can’t find it in Kubuntu at the moment, but I am pretty sure it is in SuSE). If by iconified Alt+Tab menu you mean there are screenshots of each application, compiz does that. Security alerts? Oh, you mean those REALLY annoying things XP has? At least they have cut them back by the sound of it.
Have you tried compiz in a *nix environment yet? Maybe we should have a Glitz [TM] vs compiz screenshot duel.
June 12th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
I would like to see some screenshots of compiz in action.
The Alt+Tab does show live screenshots of the applications. There is also a CTRL+META+TAB shortcut that does a 3D “3/4 view tiled” display of the active windows, and lets you scroll through them with the mouse wheel. Interesting additions.