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I installed ubuntu back when I was 12 because I could make my windows wobbly. Best decision i ever made.
I still remember this video on youtube from about 2008, well a couple. One was pretty basic and was like “you can configure anything, look I changed the icon for this thing on my desktop”. Then the other one was the mega cuboid virtual desktop with wobbly windows that put windows and OSX to shame. Windows was still almost a decade from virtual desktops(and they STILL suck), and OSX had pretty good virtual desktops with limitations.
I remember the multidesktop cube and thought it was the most wild thing ever. Did windows ever even implement multi desktop?
It’s not even “obscure program made 13 months ago” but “obscure FOSS program that hasn’t seen a single commit in over 18 months but you can peruse the code yourself if you want”
Sometimes it is possible for a program to actually be completed. Especially under the uNiX pHiLoSoPhY of “do one thing and do it well.”
Me before: I’ll plug my VR headset in to play computer games
Me now: after twenty eight hours of effort I finally got a 144p stream to go from my computer to my head set but for some reason Steam VR still doesn’t detect it
Not really sure how you got there. My experience with SteamVR on Linux is basically identical to Windows. Just plug and play.
It worked perfectly like this for my Valve Index, but I ran into a lot of trouble getting my parents’ Oculus Quest to work. I did get it to work eventually, but it was still kinda shit.
Yooooo where do I get trapezoid windows???
This functionality was tossed into the trash heap with extreme prejudice with the transition to Wayland (along with other amusingly terrible features, like the ability to use a printer as the display for an OpenGL context), but X11 actually did support arbitrarily shaped windows. This functionality was demonstrated with the novelty application xeyes which created two round windows.
“why you should use [4th degree derivative of debian where the only fundamental difference is the desktop environment]”
