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Vista Aero vs. Ubuntu Beryl

bohuskbohusk
edited June 2008 in Chit chat
I find this interesting.

http://www.videotube.sk/video/1196975550-954-windows_vista_aero_vs_linux_ubuntu_beryl

EDIT : The last scene is iritating although.
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  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2008
    Cool to know that there are other better(?) looking OSes around ... too bad it's not more widespread.

    I thought the end scene was funny ;-)
  • dekhdekh
    edited June 2008
    bohusk wrote: »
    EDIT : The last scene is iritating although.

    Not in the least. "Dear Mr Gates here is your new OS bluescreening. Wowwwww."

    As to the rest: in both OSs just eyecandy for people that don't have real work to do on a computer.

    Bloatware. The more there is, the suckier it gets.
  • AndyCAndyC
    edited June 2008
    dekh wrote: »
    Not in the least. "Dear Mr Gates here is your new OS bluescreening. Wowwwww."

    Except that was a demo of a prelease version of 98 (or was it 95, I forget) and they've cut Bill's followup line - well that's why it's not released yet.

    It's certainly an interesting comparison though; ignoring the flashy transition effects (which both OS X and Vista's DWM could easily manage) the actual UI quality on the Beryl demo is surprisingly poor. Reminiscent of Win 95 era widgets.
  • sparkessparkes
    edited June 2008
    AndyC wrote: »
    the actual UI quality on the Beryl demo is surprisingly poor. Reminiscent of Win 95 era widgets.

    I haven't watched the video but I presume it's showing GNOME which uses GTK+ which is extremely styleable in both look and feel. You can have it look and act like *any* version of Windows or MacOS you like or anything widget based windowing system for that matter.

    Which just proves that showing off gui's and saying how one looks better than the other is completely pointless it's what's under the skin that really matters and it's the job of the interface to be as unobtrusive as possible not dazzle. For most people that unobtrusiveness means mimicking the interfaces they are used to which was a large part of the reason GNOME even exists in the first place (ignoring Stallman's ability to pick a fight in an empty room)

    Bloody software advocates, always missing the point and being too busy knocking the other guy to actually say what the product is and what it does.
  • dekhdekh
    edited June 2008
    AndyC wrote: »
    Except that was a demo of a prelease version of 98 (or was it 95, I forget) and they've cut Bill's followup line - well that's why it's not released yet.

    The OS doesn't matter. The guy was demo'ing to a big crowd and the big cheese was stood next to him. Nightmare :)
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