It's nice to see creative people reimagining the PC desktop environment: Windows offers very limited customisation, Linux mainly offers KDE or Gnome (and never the twain shall meet - the disparity between the KDE fans and the Gnome users apes the fanboi 'tudes that happen throughout the net, and it's always struck me as strange that Macs generate so devotion just because they're purty), and Macs offer the X desktop.
Having watched a presentation by one of the Bumptop team, I remain unconvinced by its practicality and usability, and it will certainly (by its nature) be a resource hog. This being said, who wouldn't want a desktop environment which has a physics-based feel, allowing you to throw uncooperative documents about? Take that, you stupid spreadsheet! In your face, typo-in-a-shell-script!
One feature that I particularly like is the
Have a look for yourself:
http://bumptop.com/
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