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so i got a new laptop and it came with windows 11 - i mean it's used (technically not a new laptop) but it's new to me, same thing - and that just doesn't vibe with me so i decided to put linux on it. i went with "fedora mate+compiz spin" - fedora because someone on cohost at some point in some comment said it was good or something, and the mate+compiz spin because it's ugly (which means it isn't material design, which makes it good) and i was intrigued by the idea of "3d eyecandy". it turns out the 3d eyecandy is actually a massive problem because if you go into the settings you can enable this thing that puts all your virtual desktops on the sides of a prism, and then you rotate the prism to switch between them. and there's another setting that puts fish inside the prism so it's like it's a fishtank. and i just think, and this is the problem, if i ever have to switch to some other desktop environment or whatever because this one is old and unstable or i just decide i want something new i will always think, possibly for the rest of my life, man, i miss when my computer had fish inside it. i wish every os had an option that put fish inside the computer. i know what it's like now to have fish in the computer and i can never go back



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that sounds genuinely delightful honestly. I am so tired of the current paradigms of OS GUIs, because we treat UI/UX like it's a solved problem and there's no use reinventing the wheel and that is why most people's computers do not have fish inside them in a volumetric cube around which all of their desktops are arranged

OH MY GOD i haven’t thought about the fishtank compiz thing since probably when i was at uni! it’s somehow incredible to me that that is still an option. i thought it was so cool (it was in fact so cool) and used it on my 7+ pound laptop that deffo had way less battery life than it could have had the damn thing not been constantly rendering a ton of fish! x3

my first successful linux install was ubuntu 7 back in like 2007 and i exclusively did it bc i wanted the desktop cube. i had next to no linux knowledge but i got it to run on the old laptop i was using (my only computer at the time) and it was glorious

Thanks for the nostalgia blast. My first exposure to this was installing the packages from a Linux magazine cover disc, in Dubai airport (a sensible time to make software changes) perhaps 2007(?) and I was blown away. I was sad when I went back to install it on modern KDE and a lot of the flashy options were gone.