I used Vista for the first time the other day at a customer’s house. I wouldn’t call it a “bad” experience, but it wasn’t a great one also. I was mostly indifferent. I did however like the Aero interface with the transparency and flowing windows (and especially the preview over the task bar windows). Well, I just happened upon something called the Beryl Project. I don’t need Vista to get that. Beryl does everything Aero does, and more. It even does “wobbly windows” (taking me a while to get used to that one though). It even has a few Mac like things, like viewing all the windows at once. What is even better about Beryl over Aero is that it works on older graphics cards. My laptop would never run Aero, but it runs Beryl just fine.
Aero, meet Beryl.
