• cholesterol@lemmy.world
    72·
    9 months 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.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
    38·
    9 months 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·
      9 months 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.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months 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.

  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social
    25·
    9 months 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.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 months 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
        11·
        9 months 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!

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
          5·
          9 months ago

          I keep different projects on different desktops. Helps with context switching, of which I am fucking awful at.

            • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
              2·
              9 months ago

              I am mostly keyboard driven so it’s not a problem if I have Firefox open across three workspaces although sometimes I do click on the wrong one but it’s also a single click to change workspaces if you use hot corners.

              • emptiestplace@lemmy.ml
                1·
                9 months ago

                I also avoid clickyui but I think the issue I have is that I struggle to think in terms of workspaces instead of applications. Also, I always struggled with the discipline required to keep tabs relevant to each browser instance - never mind browser state that should or should not span instances. I tried using Firefox Multi-Account Containers to help with this, but it seemed like I was spending more time adjusting and maintaining (fighting with my browser) than getting shit done.

                I suspect things could be a lot better if we eliminated tabs/MDI altogether, but it’d be a huge step backwards for nearly 100% of users, so…

        • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
          12·
          9 months 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

  • geoff@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    9 months 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!

  • Album@lemmy.ca
    4·
    9 months ago

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

  • datelmd5sum@lemmy.world
    3·
    9 months 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.

      • geoff@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 months 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.