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Temple of the Roguelike / Re: Welcome to Temple of the Roguelike Forums! (a.k.a. Introduce Yourself Thread)

« on: September 26, 2008, 09:34:09 PM »

Does a secret level really exist if nobody finds it?

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Other Announcements / Re: [REQ]Roguelike programming for dummies...

« on: December 06, 2007, 09:10:48 PM »

However, graphical enhancing sytems (?) like Beryl and Compiz (and Vista) are gaining popularity. I see a bunch of people with that stuff installed all the time. Ugh. Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Ubuntu now brings compiz by default too - I'm thinking of switching to Debian... I'm worried about an OS that brings that kind of thing by default.

The nice thing about compiz (beryl has since been reintegrated into compiz as compiz-fusion) is it's entirely up to you as to what effects, if any, are applied.  The real benefit is the acceleration of the rendering of the desktop - so even if you decide to use no window decoration and no special effects, you're more than likely getting a speed (and therefore usability) boost from just having compiz.

That having been said, I love the wobbly windows.  When I'm bored or am thinking about a problem, grabbing and shaking a window to watch it bounce is amusing.  I even find myself trying to do it on my XP machine at work (to a disappointing end).

As for distros, have you considered Gentoo?  I've been 100% Linux at home, all with Gentoo.  The ability to handpick which parts of packages get installed and to have optimized builds for suboptimal systems (my SVN server is a repurposed original XBox) is a joy to see realized.