There's a simple answer to that, it's not OSX with it's fancy tab switching, exposé or dashboard and it's certainly not Windows with it's lame attempt at making Vista look nice. The answer is of course Linux and whilst Linux eye candy is in very early stages and run by few people it certainly has it and certainly has the upper hand. I must clarify what I mean by eye candy, I do not mean the look of a desktop, but the animation effects it can achieve. It's true that the way a desktop looks is eye candy however this type of eye candy is easily available by switching desktop themes and Linux has been capable of doing this for some time. What Linux has that is new is snazzy animations that's to the work of some talented hackers and some input from the guys at Novell.

I'm not going to add pictures or screencasts to this blog. I have seen videos of it before and none of them justify it. So here's my advice, download an ISO of Kororaa, a live CD which you can run safely that does not touch your hard drive but runs straight from the disk. This special version of Kororaa is designed to showcase XGL which gives Linux such fancy effects as wobby windows and cubed desktop switching.

This distro worked flawlessly, detecting all my hardware and working perfectly with my ATI 9800XT without further tweaking. Indeed I have been so impressed by the distro that I have been working in it all day despite the fact that opening programs is not as quick as my Ubuntu installation due to running them from a CD.

Download it, burn it, slap it in your drive, reboot and enjoy.



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