Ubuntu is hypnotizing me

[mh47g]

I turned on the advanced visual features, and now I can't stop dragging windows around for no reason.

 

[Brazen]

lol, yeah I remember the first time I discovered wobbly-windows. It's captivating!

 

[Schadenfroh]

The high setting is a bit overkill for me, I prefer the more subtle "normal" 🙂

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
The high setting is a bit overkill for me, I prefer the more subtle "normal" 🙂

Agreed. I think the normal setting looks the cleanest.

 

[sourceninja]

I setup custom settings. But that wobbly windows makes me sick when I use the computer.

 

[OUCaptain]

I can spend all day watching the cube spin with an animated skydome and star picture for the background.

 

[agibby5]

I love the features too, but when I use them, even for a small amount of time, my video card fan kicks in which is very, very annoying.

 

[aceO07]

Yup, some of the features are nice. Though some of them seem to create new frustrations for me.

1. I like being able to drag applications to a new desktop and have the cube rotate to the desktop. This seems to make it so that I can't use the very edge of my screen, where my vertical scrollbar is (for any app), to scroll up and down. I can do it if I move a pixel away, but I usually like to just mouse to the very right and click/drag up or down.
2. The wobbling is cute, but it's imperfect and will sometimes shake for a while and adjust itself to a position close by NOT where I had intended.

 

[ethebubbeth]

Originally posted by: aceO07
Yup, some of the features are nice. Though some of them seem to create new frustrations for me.

1. I like being able to drag applications to a new desktop and have the cube rotate to the desktop. This seems to make it so that I can't use the very edge of my screen, where my vertical scrollbar is (for any app), to scroll up and down. I can do it if I move a pixel away, but I usually like to just mouse to the very right and click/drag up or down.
2. The wobbling is cute, but it's imperfect and will sometimes shake for a while and adjust itself to a position close by NOT where I had intended.

By default, it wobbles too much for me as well. Turning up the friction and the spring constant helps SIGNIFICANTLY in that regard.

 

[Bateluer]

I enjoyed various aspects of Compiz Fusion, however, having it on at even the lowest settings would cause all video files to flicker terribly when played, regardless of what player they were played in, or the video format they were encoded in.

 

[mundane]

Related to Ubuntu (but not the UI):
I was *amazed* at how smoothly the installation and setup went on this laptop (older Inspiron 700m). Wireless was picked and configured automagically, which blew me away - the one major reservation I had shifting this box over from a slowly dying Windows install was hit-and-miss wireless support. Not only that, but Skype works, too.

 

[tatteredpotato]

I disabled wobbly windows.... Just a little too much for me.