On Wednesday 27 August 2008 10:02, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On 8/26/08, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org