[GRLUG] A big opportunity for Linux?

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> I had the sense when I first installed vista (after having beryl 
> already), Boy, this is an embarrassment for a multi-billion dollar 
> company.  The eye-candy looked amateurish, and the performance was not 
> there, copmpared to xp and ubuntu.
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Well... Yes and no... Vista is no Beryl (but what is... Beryl makes OSX 
look like kid stuff) but unlike Beryl the Aero interface is usually 
stable and seems to work for most people. I've seen my fair share of 
stupid things happen with Beryl. Of course, in general 3D just isn't to 
a really great point on linux just yet. Still, I have an nVidia 8700GT 
and while it works in Beryl and the effects are fast the system is less 
stable and some things just seem to not work anymore.

Personally I'd have to call Aero a desperate measure to answer to OSX 
but really Aero isn't as bad as people try to make it out to be. It 
looks decent. On a 8700GT it runs quite well. It just doesn't have the 
same level of eye candy as other interfaces.

The performance of the system itself though... It eats ram like 600 
pound women eat cake. I can run 64 bit linux and still use 1/2 the RAM 
that Vista uses just to run. Not to mention the vista characteristic 
lagging.