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OSWeekly: Is Xgl Really Worth It?

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MH
Matt Hartley
Sep 21, 2006

[ Thanks to S. Mehta for this link.
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“Perhaps I am missing something here, but why in the world is
anyone worried about whether or not Xgl is outdoing the efforts of
Microsoft’s Vista? Seriously, we already know that Vista has
problems of its own, and this is not even counting the fact that
Xgl outperforms Vista’s Aero hands down without the need for extra
video card upgrades (without some tweaking, that is).

“But enough of that. What I’m really hoping to touch on here is
how we have completely forgotten about functionality and have in
turn spent entirely too much time concerning ourselves as to how
‘attractive’ the UI is. Seriously, give me a break…”


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