Pretty, but just more cycle-stealing inefficiency. Using something like this boils down to whether you don't mind wasting cycles and RAM on pretty effects or y

Pretty, but just more cycle-stealing inefficiency. Using something like this boils down to whether you don't mind wasting cycles and RAM on pretty effects or you just want the best performance consistently. For most of us, that depends on whether we have had the experience of struggling to maintain good GUI performance or not. The younger users will have no hassle with using something like this, they've always had plenty of GUI performance. For those of us who have had the experience of the necessity of only using plain-color wallpapers because it took too long for an image wallpaper to repair itself after moving a window on the desktop, it will remain one of those 'interesting thing to see, but not for me' effects.