--- Ty Unes [email protected] wrote:
As for eye-candy, definately beats anything I've ever seen. Brings a new level of workstation goodies to play with. True, it's a waste of system resources, but it didn't seems to slow my machine down much, if any.
This got me thinking: Linux can run, with minimal hardware, the Beryl/Compiz desktop. The only thing you have to consider is the video card.
With all of Vista's extra resource requirements for its DRM "Treacherous Computing" additions to Windows, how on earth are you going to be able to find a PC which can run both Vista *and* Aero?
I have visions of 5Ghz PCs with 2GB of RAM and a 512MB nVidia card running Vista plus Aero at about the speed of a 1Ghz PC running Linux. Naturally such visions frequently include customers who are annoyed about this, and say, "Is there an alternative to this?"
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