On Jul 7, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Calum Benson wrote:

> 
> On 7 Jul 2010, at 04:11, Jonathan Edwards wrote:
> 
>> i don't know about you, but personally I'd rather spend my time on my 
>> family, social life, or developing useful pieces of infrastructure instead 
>> of trying to figure out why compiz isn't working with the Intel embedded 
>> video chip on an underpowered atom-based 32bit PC
> 
> Although you're just as likely to spend your time doing that in VirtualBox 
> these days... compiz has been a bit flaky there again recently :/

Is there any real reason to run compiz, other than so you can watch your 
windows go up in flames or break into little tiny cubes when you close them?  
That stuff sold Vista but I'm not convinced of its value on a *nix desktop, 
other than the wow factor when doing demos.

-- 

David Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington




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