As a Linux user, I have known about XGL/Compiz before it was publicly available and got my hand on it as soon as possible. I wrote a blog post a while ago proclaiming that I thought Linux was the winner in this market. After speaking to some Mac guys, apparently Mac can do some of the stuff XGL/Compiz can. However I have never seen any news of this on technology news sites like Digg, however the words XGL/Compiz and Linux are cropping up all the time. This confuses me but anyway, I found a rather interesting poll via digg. It features three videos of all the new fancy/useful/useless features in Linux, OSX and Vista. The Linux video is stupidly long, has little more than a guy wobbling windows and spinning cubes and fails completely to show some of the more useful effects however it pulls in the "wow" factor. Take a look at this Linux XGL/Compiz Graphics to Apple Aqua & Vista Aero poll.

Linux is in the lead... by miles! In fact it has (at the time of writing) over 82% of the votes. No this isn't on a Linux forum, it's on an OS neutral forum. I agree that two videos were unfair, the Linux and OSX video the Windows one seemed to showcase exactly how little Windows Vista can do anyway.

This is most interesting, Mac and Windows users voted on that forum and a lot voted Linux as the superior graphically capable desktop. Clearly XGL/Compiz or similar effects could play a big part in the adoption of desktop Linux.



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