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Finally Windows users can get Compiz easily!!
by cyberorg, Wednesday, April 1st @ 7:31 am

On behalf of Compiz developers and the super smart guys at Novell-Microsoft Interop lab, I am happy to announce the easy way to get Compiz for Windows users.

Download Compiz for Windows users.

Run the .exe file, follow the familiar on screen wizard, reboot, that simple.

Special thanks to Jordi Massaguer Pla and his team for making this possible.

Here is another great use of Compiz(sic), you can now spin openSUSE installer cube.


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  1. : mike, April 1 @ 9:08 am

    hahah… got super intrigued/confused for a second… then realized its April 1st… dang.

  2. : vadise, April 1 @ 9:16 am

    Installer said, “Cannot Copy C:\openSUSE\boot\i386\loader\initrd to C:\openSUSE\initrd”
    What should I do ?

    Vista Home Premium & Ultimate SP1 32bit

  3. : vadise, April 1 @ 9:20 am

    Was I duped? haha

  4. : Dread Knight, April 1 @ 12:18 pm

    : )

  5. : tester, April 1 @ 12:22 pm

    WHOAAAAAAAAA! THANK you very much!

    I already tested it with windows Vista 32-bit and Windows XP Pro 64-bit.

    I have a screenshot for you!
    see:
    http://picfront.de/d/Jo5RkAqm7G/compiz-fusion-xp.small.jpg

    Don’t trust the comments above! This is no fake! This really freakin works!!

  6. : hkid, April 1 @ 12:43 pm

    oh cool… can you post how its working?

    i just cant find this C:\openSUSE\boot\i386\loader\initrd

    hope you can help.

  7. : tester, April 1 @ 12:46 pm

    yeah no problem

    I was confused too, but it’s actually quite easy. The installer has a wrong folder connection so you’ll have to do it a different way. Because compiz-fusion kicks out the running WM and of course we still are talking about windows (only tested on xp/vista!), you’ll have to get a linux-live-cd first. I still had one of those opensuse thingies lying around:
    http://en.opensuse.org/Download
    but ubuntu or whatever will work just as well. First of all: install it.
    Then, once everything is on your computer, download the installer. Don’t worry about it being a exe file, linux can run those just as well through wine. So no worries ;-)

    That’s how I got it running. Good luck!

  8. : Crismon, April 1 @ 12:58 pm

    Nice joke!! ;)

  9. : Dietrich, April 1 @ 2:52 pm

    Installer said, “Cannot Copy C:\openSUSE\boot\i386\loader\initrd to C:\openSUSE\initrd”
    What should I do ?

    -Dietrich

  10. : keke’s blog » compiz on xp, April 1 @ 2:57 pm

    [...] ????????? [...]

  11. : nelo, April 1 @ 4:48 pm

    hahahahahaahahahahaha

  12. : Jean-Philippe Green, April 1 @ 9:33 pm

    I hope this is a joke. Compiz is one of the things that brings people to Linux. If this is true it will be a dark year for desktop Linux.

  13. : Dan, April 1 @ 9:41 pm

    How could you??!?!? It was our killer app! Now you’ve gone and spoiled it for us…
    ;-(

  14. : Compiz-fusion For Windows?4?1?????? « ??IT?????IT???????????????????, April 2 @ 1:01 am

    [...] ??:Finally Windows users can get Compiz easily!! [...]

  15. : Linux Sucks, April 2 @ 4:44 am

    A good example of April Fool Jokes.

    Still, LINUX SUCKS!!

  16. : Windows SUCKS MORE, April 2 @ 6:14 am

    Yet Windows SUCKS MORE! Windows SUCKS! SUCKS! SUCKS!

  17. : L4Linux, April 2 @ 9:09 am

    For the love of god, please don’t ever make Compiz work on Winodws!!
    Compiz is one of Linux killer features. Do whatever necessary to protect itQ:Patent everything around it , dual license it so it is not allowed to be ported to Windows, If it gets ported it will be the biggest disaster in the history of Linux…

  18. : Stylius.NET » ?????????? » ?????????????, April 2 @ 11:16 am

    [...] ?????? ?? Windows-? ?? ????? DotNET. ????? ???? ?, ?? ?? ??? Compiz ? ?? Windows ? ???????? ?? ?????? ?????? ?? Microsoft ? Novel. ??? Linux [...]

  19. : IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 1st, - Part 4 | Boycott Novell, April 2 @ 11:33 am

    [...] also: Finally Windows users can get Compiz easily!! < http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2009/04/01/…; [...]

  20. : IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 1st, - Part 4 | All about MICROSOFT, April 2 @ 11:46 am

    [...] also: Finally Windows users can get Compiz easily!! < http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2009/04/01/…; [...]

  21. : BW, April 3 @ 1:25 pm

    Aha…. It’s not funny for the rest of the world… april’s 1st is fools day only in some countries. For others, this week is only a week when you can click on “mark all posts as read” in our reader.

  22. : DWORKIN, April 3 @ 8:39 pm

    I have this problem to “Cannot Copy C:\openSUSE\boot\i386\loader\initrd to C:\openSUSE\initrd”
    and I have no idea what to do with this. HELP ME PLEASE

  23. : Praveen Kunjapur, April 4 @ 10:41 am

    Good program! Doesn’t work. Keep up the good work! :P

    Good program should work in ReactOS!!

  24. : inu, April 4 @ 1:55 pm

    wanna get suprised, try “cubedesktop 1.3.2″ (windows only). than compare it with compiz….

  25. : Thekiller, April 19 @ 4:02 pm

    WHAT FUCK IS HAPPENING WITH US??? WE DONT LET THIS ABUSEMENT … WE NEED TO IMPROVE WITH OTHER DISTROS, BECAUSE OPENSUSE IS THE SAME SHIT OF NOVELL. AND WHO IS NOVELL?? NOVELL IS WINNING A JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE UNIXWARE, OWNER OF NOVELLWARE ON NET SYSTEMS, AND VERY FRIENDLY PARTNER OF OUR BEST ENEMY … MICROSOOOOFT!!!!

    PLEASE, PEOPLE MAKE THE CHANGE AND THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE OPENSUSE IS AN EYE CANDY BUT WHO WANTS AN EYE CANDY WHEN U DONT HAVE FLEXIBILITY AND FREEDOM OF LINUX AND OPEN SOURCE PHILOSOPHY…

    PLEASE, LET THE PEOPLE CHOOSE THE BEST … AND THE BEST WORKS … THE PEOPLE HAVE TO LEARN BY A EASY WAY … IT IS DIFFERENT AGAINST THE PEOPLE DONT HAVE TO LEARN PHILOSOPHY OF OPENSUSE WITH ITS INFLEXIBLE YAST CONTROL CENTER, A IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROL PANEL OF WINDOWS … WHAT IS THE JOKE TO HAVE AN INFLEXIBLE SYSTEM INSIDE A FLEXIBLE PHILOSOPHY.

    PLEASE GUIDE THE PEOPLE TO CHOOSE PROPERLY DISTROS, LIKE SLACKWARE BASED, DEBIAN BASED, OR INCLUSIVELY UBUNTU BASED.

  26. : John, April 19 @ 11:51 pm

    This is too funny. Linux will always be a coffee table OS because no one is driving the bus… Microsoft will not be dethroned as long as no one stands ready to soak up the market share when they make a Vista sized mistake. Yes Microsoft is fat and lazy, its true, just look at Vista. But since they control the market for OEM’s and the desktop markets for business they can afford to be. I am running a copy of Ubuntu on one of my PC’s and yes I like compiz as much as the next guy, but its a novelty. I do my work and run my business on a Vista based laptop hooked to a Windows based network…

    If the open source world is so flexible, so desirable, and so freeing, then why doesn’t it make a bigger splash in the desktop market? I don’t want to hear some half cooked conspiracy theory; the fact is while Linux has come a long long way, and there are thousands of users running Linux, there is no corporate structure that is aiming to take some of the market share much less is poised to even threaten Microsoft’s hold on the desktop.

    It’s simple economics really. Someone needs to prepare and set themselves up to take some market share, then when the fat dumb slobs at Microsoft build another Vista, the company had a chance to make some money and earn a name for themselves… Ubuntu has the right attitude. It should just work; instability and all that aside - when people buy a PC, they are likely going to use the OS that comes on it. We are a different breed of user, we like the freedoms that come with Linux, but with that comes a lot of geekdom that the average Joe doesn’t possess. So from a certain point of view we don’t really count… sucks doesn’t it?

    So, we continue on, making our jokes, laughing at Microsoft users, and thumbing our noses at Microsoft… and M$ carries merrily on, not giving us a second thought because we pose no threat to their way of life…

    Why can’t we do better?

    Just Thinking…

    -J

  27. : Best customized GUI-Windows VS LINUX - Page 8, April 21 @ 8:29 pm

    [...] Finally windows users, time to celebrate, compiz for windows CyberOrg ? Finally Windows users can get Compiz easily!! [...]

  28. : Puchu, April 21 @ 8:36 pm

    Only one line for : John, April 19 @ 11:51 pm
    if LINUX needs to be marketed then it won’t be free anymore , free to develop, free to distribute and free to recode and redistribute.

  29. : THECompKid, April 22 @ 12:11 am

    ALL OF YOU ARE IDIOTS! I HAVE WANTED FOR COMPIZ TO RUN ON WINDOWS FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS SINCE I DISCOVERED IT! IF ANYTHING, MAKE IT BETTER! MAKE IT WORK ON WINDOWS! AND FIX THAT “Cannot Copy C:\openSUSE\boot\i386\loader\initrd to C:\openSUSE\initrd” CRUD! IF ANY OF YOU DARE TO INFLUENCE THIS FILE IN A BAD WAY, YOU WILL PAY BACK! TRUST ME!

  30. : THECompKid, April 22 @ 12:17 am

    IF THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE, I WILL CRY A RIVER AS LONG AS THE NILE!

  31. : Azraelthe7th, April 24 @ 11:51 pm

    THECompKid: Prepare to cry.

  32. : sartaz, April 28 @ 1:51 am

    I suddenly became extreeeemely interested in linux operating systems after i saw an article about portable operaating systems (usb).

    so for the past two weeks i have tried and installed Opensuse11.1, ubuntu 9.04, slax, dsl, slitaz, fedora etc .

    by far slax was perfect for a operating system for multimedia playback on a relatively slow computer.

    Ubuntu was most matured among them but ……… none of the linux operating systems can actually go near windows in support, compatibility, looks (windows 7) and user freindlyness.

    compiz is a great desktop enhancement tool but is not fast with all video cards(even my 4850 1gb),, plus its very buggy (in ubuntu 9.04)
    but its true that there would be no stopping microsoft, if windows had something like compiz.

  33. : Flip, April 29 @ 2:53 am

    @ sartaz just try it a little bit longer and you will see that linux is much more better then windows..
    The only thing is, you have to configure it;)

  34. : No?a, May 2 @ 5:13 am

    some things to think about:

    Power cames with Responsibility, Freedom cames with Configuration.
    No one wants a thing that is extremely easy to get.

  35. : TheCompKid, May 16 @ 10:29 pm

    A few days ago, the power went out and I could not boot Vista. Instead, whatever I selected in the windows OS selection box, I was forced to go to the screen with the “Error 17: File not found” and when I pressed a key to continue, I was stuck with grub. I had to get on another computer in my house a few days later and look it up on the Internet. Then the Windows Recovery program fixed it. That explains this USELESS CRUD! AAAAH!

  36. : lol, June 3 @ 5:22 am

    If compiz would be DAMN stable, then it would be a killer feature of Linux. But IT ISN’T.