And it is for this reason I bought a mac.
What, you switched to an OS that uses even more useless eye-candy?
;)
There's no hope :( We'll never go back to the good old days where they just made functional operating systems with two colours.
Are you sure just a fullscreen scene with the same screen resolution as your desktop, featuring a cube, will not work?
I have this with my very old and useless computer, but it seems to run very basic stuff fine.