Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic terms

On Fri, 2/21/2025 4:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:48:03 +0000, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
 

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:25:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Particularly when most of what seems to be called “progress” these
days (at least in the proprietary world) seems to be about promotion
of new GUI fashions.

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semi-transparent is like so cool!

 
I do like my 3D effects. But Microsoft doesn’t seem too keen on them any
more. Absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Linux GUIs can implement
them more efficiently, and on lower-spec hardware, than Windows was ever
able to manage, oh no!
 

Windows has animation effects, but it is not Compiz level.
There are no fireworks or screen shimmer effects. (Modern Compiz
is just compositing.)

If you have ever watched a video card trigger the Watchdog,
and the screen has stopped updating while this has happened,
you will see that the simplest of things, are being faded in and
out, and you can catch the GUI between states, with half of one image
and half of the other, signaling a transition is taking place.

sysdm.cpl : Advanced : Performance (Settings) : Visual Effects

the Custom settings there, allow you to turn off most of the
buttery smooth stuff, in the interests of reducing the
overhead needed to do a job. If you were, for example,
stuck with the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter (no driver
is otherwise available for the card, it is the VESA driver),
running all those effects emulated, on the CPU, would be wasteful.

   Paul