Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2162 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 10:02, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> On 8/26/08, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Vista needs good video card for advanced 3D effects (Aero Glass).
> > > It can work in basic mode with standard VGA card.
> > > The Vista experience is bad without it.
> >
> > So it is the case that the user experience of Vista is not good
> > without a graphics card with "advanced 3D effects?" And to date
> > there are no virtualization systems the provide such a graphics
> > adaptor in their virtual machine environment, right?
> >
> > So is Vista practical under virtualization?
>
> Not that I particularly like Vista but is opensuse "practical"
> without Compiz? Is the "experiance" "bad" without Compiz? I wouldn't
> say yes to either.

All Linux systems are practical without Compiz. They're extremely 
practical without a GUI at all.

Windows is another issue entirely. Its command-line interpreter is an 
even bigger piece of trash than is the Outlook family, so without its 
GUI it's virtually a non-entity.


> So what if you don't have pretty transparant graphics and a nice
> effect when you minimize a window? You sill have UAC and the making of
> everything that used to be 1-2 mouse clicks away 3-4 mouse clicks
> away to keep your "experiance" "good" when you run Vista under
> VirtualBox.

But that's really not my question, which was sincere. I am curious 
whether Vista is crippled in the absence of a high-end graphics adaptor 
or whether it degrades / falls back to a usable if less attractive mode 
when it doesn't have the GPU power to do the fancy stuff.

I don't know what UAC is.


Randall Schulz
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