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Was quite shocked to find that even 14.04 still uses Compiz:
Anyway, here's a scrot - Ubuntu Kylin 14.04, running really well on this old T43 (and not at all on the desktop with nVidia GeForce 6150)

Apart from that, I must say that 14.04 is really an improvement. Going to install it as fallback ;)

^ I can see the shadows there, you old compiz addicted. ;)

Haha I didn't even do anything else than booting into a live session, the shadows were already there:

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I think Unity is still just a Compiz plugin, so in theory you can disable it to have a Compiz standalone session (seen somebody on deviantart do it, wasn't 14.04 though).

Out of curiosity I downloaded LinuxDeepin 14, which is not even bad (if you don't run it on too old hardware). I just post a few scrots of this and that (Control Center, App Store, Game Store, Media Player, Network Manager) because I guess most (if not all) of you will never try it ;)

^ omg that looks beautiful! is this a release for blind people? i can hardly see the desktop because there is a icon in the way ;)

yeah it is really a bit too much, but i can understand what they try to achieve -- typical 'user desktop', 'everything works OO ze B'. when using it, i felt totally limited :/

^ "user-friendliness left me crippled"

Linux releases for the Chinese market seem to be very... colorful. I think that must be an Asian thing, generally speaking. They seem to like bright colors.

But I give Deepin credit where it's due, they have made a lot of stuff themselves, and not just copied some stupid wallpaper and called it a brand "new and userfriendly alternative to windows". Kudos for it.

( I have tried it MB ;)

simon

IMHO Deepin is the best distro to start-out with if you are a n00b coming from Mac. I tossed a couple Apple devotees (sporting goatees) down the bumpy road to neckbeard-dom by recommending Deepin as a dual-boot on their MacBook Retina thingamadoos. Proud to say that it sucked them into the GNU life B)

I haven't tried connecting to the servers since I was in Thailand, tho. Could be a pain in the tukhus back in the states.

Edit: 16 year old me wishing I was in Thailand. I was always trying to preserve anonymity on the interwebz at that time by faking age/location/et.al. I don't really care if people know who I am anymore :D

No problem there, they have a bunch of mirrors since their 2013 release. It is indeed a good starter DE, but nothing for us extremists :) And I agree, good development work there: Music Player, App Stores (2 of them), Movie Player, the whole DE frontend, the screenshot tool, the terminal - all comind from Deepin's in-house dev team.

CentOs 'n ting.
not too keen on yum...
enjoying 2.4 mb of updates in a year or so. and wobbly windows of course 8)

not enjoying: ten minutes later (on idle) - Kernel panic. 8(

One day before 14.10 comes out, here is Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. Won't upgrade this.

I have a confession to make... I installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 on a partition :/ *cue gasps and a shriek from the back* I was actually wanting to play a wee bit with compiz and toy around with Unity some more. I positively disdained it last time I had a chance to work with it, but I wanted to get a feel for it before I really knock it :) Maybe it is just that I have Frank Pourcel playing in the background, but I feel more positive about it now. I would certainly feel comfortable deploying it by and large to a user base that has some feel for Linux but perhaps not confident enough to want to play around in the command line. Unity has a unique feel to it and can be customized to a great degree more than I would have expected. I was able to remove the Amazon/Youtube recommendations from the launchpad and make it actually search through my files and programs, which was nice. My main gripe is pulseaudio; I tried removing it but it was going to make life difficult for me so I decided to stick with it for the time being. I wouldn't necessarily count the memory usage (idling around 1030mb with Firefox, Rhythmbox, and hexchat) as a negative, as that is simply to be expected with a bloated desktop environment. All of the bloat quickly gets annoying and I have a hard time not trying to use my keybindings with everything, but for the most part I would feel comfortable handing Ubuntu over to a complete noob and expect them to be able to watch videos, manage files, browse facebook, etc.

See, now that is what you should have posted in UnixPorn. Maybe next time.

At least you have plenty of RAM. :)

yeah - nice icons, ubuntu's not a dirty word around here.

Unity, my closet wet drem :D