Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Mar 2007 16:33 UTC, submitted by michuk
X11, Window Managers "On Tuesday, January 25th Mandriva introduced a new project: Metisse LiveCD. In this article we are going to investigate the features offered by this promising project and see if Metisse can compete with the popular desktops in terms of ergonomics and ease of use."
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Hmm
by xmv_ on Fri 9th Mar 2007 11:45 UTC
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2006-06-09

I must say that this "folding windows" thing is disturbing for me (in the meaning that, it doesn't help me, only is confusing to sort windows).

Beside this one feature, I'm using beryl and compiz which are rather fast(er then metisse) (40FPS) on a intel 855GM GPU (64megs agp aperture), 1.1Ghz CPU (running at 600mhz usually) and it provide similar features.

I'm sure mandriva wanted to have "their own thing" for marketing reasons, but I fear they're lacking ideas to make it truly innovative. Of course, finding the right ideas ain't an easy task and takes a lot of tries...