Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

From	Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date	2025-06-21 10:35 +0200
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On Fr 20 Jun 2025 at 10:37, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

> So, well...no, there is no specific example I can point to and go
> "there, *that!*" - if there was, I'd be using it. The closest real-life
> approximation I can cite is Mac System 7/7.5 - the most pleasant and
> consistent GUI environment I've ever encountered - but even that has
> its issues, as previously noted. Other systems exhibit good ideas of
> their own (I like BeOS's treatment of tabs as an integral part of the
> desktop experience, though the implementation could be less clunky,) but
> "niceness" is mostly something glimpsed in frustrating little twinkles
> that catch the attention and stir the heart amid a present day that is,
> by and large, a great oceanic garbage heap of churning not-particularly-
> niceness.
>
> But I *don't* believe that it's some unachievable Platonic ideal; every
> problem I have with extant systems seems very much like a solvable one,
> if only they weren't too married to legacy considerations to adopt a
> solution. If I had infinite time and/or no hobbies that were more
> important to me, I suppose I could try to create such a thing myself -
> but I am, tragically, a mortal with way too much on my plate as it is.

What do you think about Genera (the Symbolics Lisp Machine OS)?
I think it had a very good GUI that combined CLI and GUI in a symbiotic way.

'Andreas

-- 
ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam

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  Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-10 23:42 +0000
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      Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2025-06-11 12:12 +0000
        Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-11 13:51 +0100
          Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-06-11 17:04 +0000
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                Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-06 09:14 +0100
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                Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-02 09:31 +0100
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                Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-04 00:48 +0000
                Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-04 08:21 +0100
                Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-04 23:29 +0000
                Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-05 10:05 +0100
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                Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-21 21:43 +0000
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