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: 14 Jul 2025 03:20:00 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <1035m0l$u0ib$5@dont-email.me> <20250623142902.00001ef8@gmail.com> <103cqjq$1ip4g$7@dont-email.me> <20250701141023.00003c97@gmail.com> <1041t1s$349i3$3@dont-email.me> <10421sd$35564$4@dont-email.me> <1042qem$3dil1$1@dont-email.me> <1044eug$3p5ha$3@dont-email.me> <104as16$1d2v4$3@dont-email.me> <6868fbb4$0$11443$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <104au7q$1dse1$1@dont-email.me> <104bg1e$1igkp$1@dont-email.me> <104davd$220mr$4@dont-email.me> <686a51b6$0$8598$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <104ed5k$29dh6$1@dont-email.me> <68716003$0$423$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <104uk4q$276dl$1@dont-email.me> <104vjom$2bqoq$3@dont-email.me> <68743487@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net cq/Rdwmr4djCQqW7sv3HSA+d+I+YxbN8Y0fx5a9uX0iDiSZjXJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:2dun1HQVyuXSSpsGrEZ1lsisFsM= sha256:PgvULJ6UAeGG+TGh7jFpP7DrR0aCY8axZVu//IUyzRc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69560 On 14 Jul 2025 08:34:47 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > Another one! Amazing, I had some idea there was one of either Target or > KMart in the US, but never realised they had both, and Safeway as well! Target survived but KMart didn't, at least in the continental US. Rumor has it there are three stores in the Virgin Islands that didn't get the memo. As KMart was going down the tubes they bought Sears. I forget which died locally first. Sears was an anchor store for the mall. The mall has a charmed life and has survived, probably because it's the only one for about 150 miles. My feeling was Sears was a notch above KMart for quality but both made mistakes. Where I grew up Montgomery Wards was stronger than Sears but they're long gone too. With the mergers many of the US grocery chains are the same with different names. That was the problem here. The city figured a town of around 100,000 didn't need 4 Albertsons and 2 Safeways if they were the same thing. When I was a kid Kresge's was another department store chain but it morphed into KMart. They had a piece of KMart Australia originally but got out. fwiw we had 3 Bi-Lo stores but they had nothing to do with Coles or the chain in the US southeast. afaik they were independents. Target US is slightly upscale from Walmart. They're trying to thread the needle and failing. They were all in with gay fashions which got them boycotted like the Budweiser Light fiasco. They dialed back with the prominent Gay Pride displays so now the LGBQT+ crowd is unhappy. The slightly upscale part is probably why they don't have much in the way of cheap t-shirts. I don't care one way or the other about their DEI stuff but they never seems to have what I'm looking for.