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[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I remember being endlessly entertained by the rotating cube animation between workspaces in the old Beryl implementation.

I told my wife, "but does your Windows do this?" Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, "I don't care." And that was that.

I shall tell this story to my grandkids.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"but does your Windows do this?" Followed by rotating the cube. She was like, "I don't care."

Wow, that sums up my Linux life pretty well actually

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I think I accomplished a similar effect on my first linux distro a long time ago with a program called "compiz" (iirc). "I'm so frickin 1337," I whispered under my breath. Nobody cared except me, though, lol.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IIRC Compiz was a fork of Beryl or the other way around. I could be wrong though.

Last I checked you can still do the cube in kwin under plasma.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It was gone from Plasma for a bit, however it'll be back in the next upcoming Plasma 6 release!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

at least wobbly windows stuck around though. i've had that on for like 10 years

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yep, same! Some of my friends have told me it's a bit "silly" for me to have it enabled - but there's plenty of bad things that occur on a daily basis in my life, I do not think there's a single problem with having some wobbly windows as a small vice to enjoy haha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Nobody cared except me, though, lol.

Life in a nutshell...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] crackdroid 6 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah! That's ticking a few boxes for when I eventually switch from X(11).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

I don't care

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I wonder if thats based on a real story....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There was a jailbreak tweak for iOS that mimicked Beryl, it was so cool.