• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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        5 hours ago

        Don’t most GUI’s follow the same ancient desktop paradigms? Nevermind W98, they were there in Windows 1.x and in UNIX window systems like W before 1985, and I even remember DOS TUI’s in products made by Borland as early as 1983 that basically worked the same.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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          5 hours ago

          Gnome is trying to do their whole “Macintosh with a concussion” thing, there’s a handful of tiling window managers that are difficult to describe, but…kinda yeah. Most of us also use QWERTY keyboards that date to the 19th century.

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          4 hours ago

          Okay, so what do you want instead? X-rays that beam the computer’s input and output directly into your brain?

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            2 hours ago

            I’m not criticizing the paradigm, it works because it’s good.

            I just meant it would be easier to say “watch out for Gnome on Ubuntu” than to list all the distro/DE combinations that follow the paradigm out of the box.