I installed Beryl onto Ubunto 2.10 tonight expecting something resembling OSX's fancy effects. I realise Beryl is in it's early stages but I thought my trusty PC could handle it. Wrong! The performance hit was immense - scrolling a web page felt like my CPU had suddenly been replaced with an 8086 with 512k of memory. The effects are over the top (understandably so until things settle into a usable state), but I think I lasted about 3 minutes before I disabled it and returned to Metacity. Shame. Maybe I'll check back in 2 years.
I installed the beta of Safari for Windows out of pure curiousity. It's a weird feeling! I wish Apple would release OSX for Intel PCs; I'd blow XP away in an instant. Or at least relegate it to dual boot for games. So far Safari is decent - I'm not seeing the raw performance that some people claim. My main complaint is that CTRL+BACKSPACE doesn't delete the previous word when typing this post. So far all sites I've visited looked good, though very reminiscent of Konqueror, which uses the same KHTML rendering engine. It failed to import my Firefox bookmarks, but I'll try that again. Let's see how it goes!
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