Comments on: Blend is THE transparency software for Windows http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:23:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-806241 Anonymous Thu, 28 May 2009 20:23:49 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-806241 No, real Linux users manipulate and reshape their distributions to fit their needs and likings. I use Arch because it is very well designed toward that end. This does not mean I don't use the CLI. On the contrary, I love using the CLI and not running X at all. But that's beside the point was trying to make in my last pose. Windows has a rather badly implemented compositor. It takes a great deal of resources on a rather scant and simple set of effects. Compiz Fusion, on the other hand, is the reverse, takes very little resources (Relatively. For a Linux-based GUI you could say Compiz really hikes up the usage, but compared with Aero, and considering everything it provides, it is far more economical, hardware-wise.) and provides almost a hundred different effects. As for GUI vs. CLI, I have to agree that a CLI can beat the snot out of a GUI. A steeper learning curve, yes, but once you master BASH, for example, you can run circles around an X, Windows, or OS X user with the tools and features a *nix CLI provides. However, I still use a GUI because I like browsing the web (Lynx and Links, in my opinion, suck for web browsing.) and watching movies. I can listen to music easy from a non-graphical mode in Linux, thanks to mpg123 and any other massive amount of CLI tools. IM, MU*s, e-mail, IRC, etc. are easily handled. That's just another (Irrelevant to the topic.) way Linux can beat out Windows. Two companies made people afraid of the command line when they should really be going out of their way to develop that skill: Apple and Microsoft. Anyway, Linux isn't about the CLI, it's about the choice and customization, something neither Windows or Mac OS X really provide in a very extensive way (If at all.). No, real Linux users manipulate and reshape their distributions to fit their needs and likings. I use Arch because it is very well designed toward that end. This does not mean I don’t use the CLI.

On the contrary, I love using the CLI and not running X at all. But that’s beside the point was trying to make in my last pose.

Windows has a rather badly implemented compositor. It takes a great deal of resources on a rather scant and simple set of effects. Compiz Fusion, on the other hand, is the reverse, takes very little resources (Relatively. For a Linux-based GUI you could say Compiz really hikes up the usage, but compared with Aero, and considering everything it provides, it is far more economical, hardware-wise.) and provides almost a hundred different effects.

As for GUI vs. CLI, I have to agree that a CLI can beat the snot out of a GUI. A steeper learning curve, yes, but once you master BASH, for example, you can run circles around an X, Windows, or OS X user with the tools and features a *nix CLI provides.

However, I still use a GUI because I like browsing the web (Lynx and Links, in my opinion, suck for web browsing.) and watching movies. I can listen to music easy from a non-graphical mode in Linux, thanks to mpg123 and any other massive amount of CLI tools. IM, MU*s, e-mail, IRC, etc. are easily handled.

That’s just another (Irrelevant to the topic.) way Linux can beat out Windows. Two companies made people afraid of the command line when they should really be going out of their way to develop that skill: Apple and Microsoft.

Anyway, Linux isn’t about the CLI, it’s about the choice and customization, something neither Windows or Mac OS X really provide in a very extensive way (If at all.).

]]> By: Nick Davis http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-805963 Nick Davis Thu, 28 May 2009 17:11:02 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-805963 Last I checked, real Linux users don't use a gui. POWNED Looks neat! I think I'll give this a shot. Last I checked, real Linux users don’t use a gui. POWNED

Looks neat! I think I’ll give this a shot.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-609782 Anonymous Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:56:12 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-609782 Another pathetic attempt to get decent visual effects out of Windows. Guess what? This feature is built into Compiz Fusion and I can change each window's transparency independently. Just take my mouse and hold alt down while scrolling my mouse wheel. Windows will forever play catchup to Linux. Another pathetic attempt to get decent visual effects out of Windows. Guess what? This feature is built into Compiz Fusion and I can change each window’s transparency independently.

Just take my mouse and hold alt down while scrolling my mouse wheel.

Windows will forever play catchup to Linux.

]]> By: bobo http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-313527 bobo Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:34:34 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-313527 @Godsmack U can go here : http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=47515 to see ur problem answered :) @Godsmack
U can go here :
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=47515

to see ur problem answered :)

]]> By: Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Blend, transparencias para tu Windows http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-313349 Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Blend, transparencias para tu Windows Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:06:45 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-313349 [...] | GHacks Descarga | [...] [...] | GHacks Descarga | [...]

]]> By: Blend, transparencias para tu Windows http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-313337 Blend, transparencias para tu Windows Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:21:46 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-313337 [...] | GHacks Descarga | [...] [...] | GHacks Descarga | [...]

]]> By: Godsmack http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-312995 Godsmack Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:09:18 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-312995 Save your files before you use this! It made my Explorer shell invisible and freeze on WinXP and I couldnt c-alt-d out of it. Save your files before you use this! It made my Explorer shell invisible and freeze on WinXP and I couldnt c-alt-d out of it.

]]> By: Blend, Transparencias en Windows http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-312600 Blend, Transparencias en Windows Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:02:41 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-312600 [...] Blend. Web oficial: DevRexter. Visto en gHacks. Tags: escritorio, interface, WindowsOtras entradas que te pueden interesar...:Shell Enhancer, [...] [...] Blend. Web oficial: DevRexter. Visto en gHacks. Tags: escritorio, interface, WindowsOtras entradas que te pueden interesar…:Shell Enhancer, [...]

]]> By: Pilgrim http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-312216 Pilgrim Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:25:56 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-312216 I found this a while back and find it very easy to use: http://www.abstractpath.com/powermenu/ I found this a while back and find it very easy to use: http://www.abstractpath.com/powermenu/

]]> By: Cam http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/21/blend-is-the-transparency-software-for-windows/#comment-311774 Cam Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:43:08 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3876#comment-311774 Thanks for the find. I may give this one a shot. I usually use GhostIt, which sounds very similar. http://majorgeeks.com/Ghost-It_d1128.html Thanks for the find. I may give this one a shot. I usually use GhostIt, which sounds very similar.

http://majorgeeks.com/Ghost-It_d1128.html

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