Life on the bleeding edge

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> I've been looking to put a new distro on my laptop, and my choice this
> time is to do something that is close to being, if not quite yet, fully
> cooked.
>
> I've tried Release Candidate 2 of Mandriva 2007; in fact that's what I'm
> using as I write this now. It uses the Compiz window manager with 3D
> effects using the AIGLX extensions to X Windows (it also supports XGL).
> Some of the eye candy is nice, but it doesn't really offer much more
> functionality and some things (like the elastic-band characteristic of
> windows) is starting to get on my nerves.
>
> I'm thinking of tossing it,

     Why would you toss an entire distro because you don't like the
     window manager? Use whategver window manager suits you; the distro
     has nothing to do with it. My desktop look the same whether I'm
     using Mandriva, Ubuntu or any other distro.

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    Chris F.A. Johnson                      <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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