Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: 12 Jun 2025 02:39:50 GMT Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <101tsvg$en0o$1@paganini.bofh.team> <6843417c$0$8575$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <20250609093835.0000784c@gmail.com> <1027nss$ptre$6@dont-email.me> <1029fb5$19mj3$3@dont-email.me> <1029h19$pc00$1@news1.tnib.de> <102a7vb$1gfus$1@dont-email.me> <102bef4$1s3n7$1@dont-email.me> <102ctft$278hu$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net SSNGYg3r8zMryo4HKz73CApI30Oj4N21MbL7gYPXS877kyCCTo Cancel-Lock: sha1:UfLisGe19L3BYXA1vPa50UKLDN8= sha256:4o9XhT5tHMB562vO5kYgwz+10bmg0c4w8inhuxT4Zs4= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68703 On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:46:36 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > I had a Yaris two-door + hatchback. Manual tranny (heh heh). It was > peppy and zipped around on/off ramps. The 2007 had a MT and was fun. Through some miracle there was no traffic when I played with a Mini on California SR 1. The Mini kept up and eventually turned off at a restaurant past Big Sur. https://www.motortrend.com/features/modp-1108-yaris-club-sport-challenge https://www.jalopnik.com/this-adorably-intense-japanese-yaris-race-is- everything-1822197728/ Unfortunately the narration in the second is in Japanese. > It had handle-rollup windows, which was a bit irksome in the South > Carolina summer heat. When a cop came up on the passenger side and I reached across to roll down the window his first words were "I didn't know they made cars with manual windows anymore.". The current one does have power windows and door locks. No remote entry but Toyota puts the parts in j.i.c. The 2007 didn't have a radio but I was happy to find it had speakers and a harness. A dash kit and pigtail and I was good to go. > My nephew called it a "clown car". I didn't think about it until I was stopped for road construction at the Lassen Volcanic NP. The flagger said "That's a really little car!" > The next Yaris's were purportedly a bit less durable, cheaply made. I have to be careful. The one I have is a genuine Yaris with the same engine the original one had. The 5-doors are rebadged Mazda 2s with Mazda engines. Even the oil filters are different. It only has one wiper. I had a counter guy at Napa actually go out to verify it didn't have the two blades the book said. > One funny thing about that car and the manual Fiesta I bought... the > trolls trolled heavily about those cars. As if I cared about their > nonsense. Consumer Reports said it was a piece of crap only suitable for the city. The furthest I made it was Virginia when I crossed over at the Breaks Interstate Park. I lose enthusiasm fast when I leave the Rocky Mountain Front but I wanted to do some hiking in the Appalachians. It rained and continued to rain until I crossed back over Wolf Creek Pass. I met a box turtle walking down the trail at the Frozen Head SP in Tennessee locking for a dry place to live. Come to think of it, when I went back to the northeast in 2004 it rained. I tend to forget that the east is a humid swamp.