Nothing_Much

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How would running a free, open source, Window compatible OS make you dependent on Microsoft?

You're relying on Microsoft's code and other compatibility layers (Wine), it'd be an absolute nightmare to deal with, especially since MS won't EVER release their source code. It's like the FOSS Nouveau driver, it's somewhat of a hassle to deal with, except that Nvidia is (hopefully) gonna release their source code for reclocking the graphics cards.
 
Xubuntu's XFCE interface has its own compositor that you can enable or disable in the Settings Manager>Window Manager Tweaks>Compositor.


That actually worked, thank you!

I had to update xfwm4 to the latest version with their PPA (4.11 added support for sync to VBlank. Not perfect but near perfect for my needs) and it seems to be stable. Nice to be one step closer to be able to remove Windows 7 completely without making me frustrated over basic usage!
 

Nothing_Much

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That actually worked, thank you!

I had to update xfwm4 to the latest version with their PPA (4.11 added support for sync to VBlank. Not perfect but near perfect for my needs) and it seems to be stable. Nice to be one step closer to be able to remove Windows 7 completely without making me frustrated over basic usage!

Not a problem! Basic usage is definitely where most distros fall short on (the *Ubuntu's are working very hard on those), I actually had to switch to LXDE since Unity/Compiz crashes Source games when I alt-tab out.
 

tux9656

Uncharitable Spy
What are you going to do? Run a single machine with six simultaneous local users? I'm not sure the Nvidia proprietary driver will support that. You might have better luck with nouveau.
 

PsychoRealm

Australian Skial God
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Why don't you, gentlemen, create a separate thread for your discussion and leave this thread to furious hatred towards OS's mentioned in the topic?

NOTE: otherwise I'll have to start deleting your posts.
 

Sharkey

Gaben's Own Aimbot
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Why don't you, gentlemen, create a separate thread for your discussion and leave this thread to furious hatred towards OS's mentioned in the topic?

NOTE: otherwise I'll have to start deleting your posts.
woah woah woah, it says unmoderated, every1 knows ur not suppozed 2 moderate unmoderated
 

PsychoRealm

Australian Skial God
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woah woah woah, it says unmoderated, every1 knows ur not suppozed 2 moderate unmoderated
It says "Unmoderated OS holy war", not "Unmoderated thread". :D Whatever is related to OS hatred stays unmoderated (and that's what it says in the first post). Other shit is still moderated.
 

Drum

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Mapper
Got this today. Pretty cool to play around with.
Currently running Raspbian.
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Chance

Australian Skial God
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I for one love Windows, not gonna hate on Mac, or Linux because those are probably better for other things or maybe someone just likes it.
 

Nothing_Much

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I for one love Windows, not gonna hate on Mac, or Linux because those are probably better for other things or maybe someone just likes it.

Obviously you've never tried anything else, so don't say you love Windows just for the sake of loving the only OS you've ever used in your life.