• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Some of the effects have become mainstream. But there is no comparison to the real Compiz feel.
      For instance the original Emerald windows dresser was amazing, and zooming with the scroll wheel combined with for instance the left win key was extremely useful. The smoothness and configurability of the cube was crazy cool.

      What is available today is hollow shells of what we had.
      Yes I use wobbly windows in KDE, but Compiz is 100x > Plasma.

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        3 hours ago

        Writing fire on the desktop and window animations like burn up on exit were also awesome.

        KDE cube always feels like watching a b-movie version starwars. Nailed the wobbly windows though.

        Compiz and cairo-dock is peak nostalgic linux for me. Tux surfing around the dock and all.