Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Compiz The Greatest Compositor Nobody Uses" video.

  1. 11:33 I think this “clean and minimal design” is a fashion idea promoted by Microsoft, because trying to do fancy 3D effects turned out to be such a disaster for them, in the resource-hogging Windows Vista.
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  2. Composting ... for those with a sense of humus.
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  3. I still enjoy the effects in KDE. I was disappointed to discover the Desktop Cube had been removed some months back, apparently because it was written using old, obsolete OpenGL calls, and needed a rework.
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  4. 10:39 EGL is a cross-platform API to allow an app to get an OpenGL context tied to a GUI window. Curious: how do things like “Gallium” and “Linux DRI/DRM” fit into this?
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  5. Apple pioneered the use of OpenGL for on-screen drawing, but it never really did any of the fun effects.
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  6.  @xard64  That’s only very basic stuff. Compiz and its successors do a lot more.
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  7.  @xard64  And of all of them, the Linux version was the one that ran well on the least powerful hardware.
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  8.  @xard64  Linux KDE 4 was able to run fancy 3D animations and transparency on an Asus Eee 701 PC with a 900MHz uniprocessor Celeron. I know, because I had one.
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