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Aero vs. Compiz Fusion



I have to admit that Aero is more usable compared to Compiz Fusion. Maybe it’s me or just because I am yet to try Ubuntu 7.10 on this C2D 4GB RAM machine…

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    There isnt any innovation in aero , it isnt even useful but compiz fusion is much better , if u switch on everything , even beryl is decent , i personally find it better than aero

    u wont find any difference in compiz fusions performance in 1 , 2 or 4 gb . It is your graphics card which can improve performance

    Compiz rocks : http://i20.tinypic.com/kpzki.png
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    so have you installed gutsy on the laptop yet? post on ibf when you do...
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    no plans yet
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    I have a computer with Vista and Linux installed side by side. The performance that I can achieve in Compiz-Fusion is impossible to achieve in Vista Aero. The only innovation they ever made in Aero was to add the Flip 3d, and they already compied it in compiz-fusion and made it much better. In Aero the most useful thing is Flip! (Not Flip 3d)
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    Of course compiz fusion is walked 10000 steps far than aero vista.
    there is no comparison between them. you can compare more than 30 desktop effect in compiz fusion with less than 10 effects in vista aero!!!.
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    Compiz Fusion pwns aero. Aero doesn't have the desktop cube or half the animations Compiz does. All this and less drain on the system resources.
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    Except Aero is what Compiz isn't. That is a production class 3d composition engine that doesn't crash, fill the screen with useless effects, or suffer from horrible slowdown when doing basic tasks like resizing a window (a documented problem). If you use Compiz and you haven't had a single crash or other anomoly, you either haven't used it, or your lying. The later being more likely.

    That was the authors point. Moving a wobbly window around looks cool for about 10 minutes, then you quickly realize how useless it is as a feature. If you're so amazed by pretty things that don't really do much maybe you should start wearing a dress and peeing while sitting down.
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    i have a p4 3.2 almost 4 years old. runs compiz now with no problems. i have no slowdown problems at all, you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference with compiz on or off. ill admit it took me a bit of time to work it out but now its fine and doesn't crash. programs do occasionally crash in gnome but i have never linked any problems i have had back to compiz. maybe im just lucky tho. and by the way. wobbly windows sucks, its just stupid and annoying. sorry about the spelling/grammar. i cant be bothered
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    @Yonah

    "If you use Compiz and you haven’t had a single crash or other anomoly, you either haven’t used it, or your lying. The later being more likely."

    *You're*, and *latter*. and by the way, that last sentence is uncalled for. That was just a grossly sexist comment, and I don't think this is what this discussion calls for.
    And yes, wobbly windows is pretty useless, but think of why it's even available. Check the iPhone vs. Windows Mobile, and we can easily argue that the iPhone has better eye-candy, but WM has better usage. But its the eye-candy that sells the iPhone, so that obviously means people want it and appreciate it. So Compiz does have a lot of useless eye-candy, but its probably what some of the Linux community wants.

    And the horrible slowdowns, I haven't experienced them. I have a 32MB ATI video radeon video card and only 512MB RAM. After using the terminal to tweak ( which i admit, did take a while), it runs flawlessly
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    @Yonah

    “If you use Compiz and you haven’t had a single crash or other anomoly, you either haven’t used it, or your lying. The later being more likely.”

    me too havent used it. i dotn need it my mobo gfx card doesnt support it. plus aint interested in bringing a voip server grid down. with so much GPU load? i need to tradeoff? graphics or performance? i chose performance over grpahics.
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    I also have used Compiz Fusion, on ubuntu 8.04 , more recently with two monitors (nvidia twinview, xinerama style) and it works flawlessly.

    Have used it since 8.04 came out (single monitor) also without a crash.

    BTW. That's on a GeForce FX 5200 with 64MB/64bit, Athlon XP 2800+, 1GB, not really a rocket.
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    OK Allen, you're a very good English teacher, but it was 4am and I had just spend the night finishing some leftover work. After a full night's rest I'll go head to head against you in terms of intelligence, wit, and capability any day of the week.

    The slowdowns I was referring to are no longer present due to a design change (hack) in recent versions. Compiz now employs an old trick taken from the early years of Windows when positioning windows was a serious drain on slower PCs. Previously, when not using desktop composition, windows were resized in real time. Now, they use a semi-transparent square to represent the new window size after the mouse button is released.

    Another weakness is Vsync and Full screen applications, as I just proved to a colleague of mine. While you can enable Vsync, it only synchronizes Compiz itself, not any other application running under it. For applications that look best with vertical synchronization such as MAME, you won't see any tearing while moving the window but the display itself still isn't waiting for the screen to be refreshed. Even worse, switching the Full screen mode caused the window to pop in and out of full screen ever 2 seconds. Pathetic. Just another X weakness, which is being pushed to do things it was never intended for.

    Oh, just a little FYI for you Allen, it's never proper to start a sentence using "And". You can sit down now.

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