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    1. 05-06-2007 01:42 PM #1
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      Beryl or Aero

      Aero on Vista just simply can't compete. Beryl is definately a lot more fascinating to look at. When I run Beryl it seems to run the effects smoother, and on a machine with less overall RAM than Vista seemed to require. And outside of all the rumors I never had a problem with Beryl being unstable, and it looks much better than Visa. Whats the deal with Microsoft? No one can tell me that they can't pull off a 3D desktop wtf are they waiting on?

      Let me just put it this way. Beryl compared to Aero is like comparing Atari 2600 to Xbox 360. What do you guys think?
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    2. 05-06-2007 03:19 PM #2
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      It has nothing to do with system requirements, Aero can do everything Beryl can do and more (with antialiasing, a word alien to Linux lips it seems), Microsoft simply chose to make it subtle so that people wouldn't get tired of it. Beryl is nothing new, it's just a minor upgrade to XGL, which I tried out a year ago. I drooled over the shiny cube and jelly windows for a while at first, but after a week I simply got annoyed and tired with it. Can you use openGL while in Beryl yet? That was a major problem I remember.

      I was actually going to try ubuntu out this morning, I switched harddrives for the occasion and everything, but unfortunately my ubuntu disk was fucked. I might find time to bother with it later though.
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    3. 05-06-2007 03:40 PM #3
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      Yup as far as I know right now you can use Celestia and Stellarium and they should run pretty fast. Let me know what you think if you decided to use it on Ubuntu. I seriously don't think I could ever get tired of it. But hey that's just me.
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    4. 05-06-2007 05:49 PM #4
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      After using both, I prefer Aero. I agree with MSG that Beryl just gets boring after a while, and I know my computer isn't that great, but it does slow it down a bit unnecessarily just for a bit of eye-candy.

      Aero is even more resource hogging, but I prefer it because it looks.. more professional? Microsoft would never come out with a rotating cube...






      ... Then they'd really be copying Linux and Mac OS X
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