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Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux

From RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux
Date 2025-03-17 07:11 +0000
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On 2025-03-16, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Farley Flud wrote:
>
>>This 3D desktop project is now defunct and it never caught
>>on.
>>
>>I can see why.  3D GUIs are a stupid idea.  They are not an
>>answer looking for a question, but more like a hallucination
>>looking for a schizophrenic.
>>
>>Accept the reality.  The ultimate GUI, that of 2D windows,
>>keyboard, and mouse, is already with us.  It will never get
>>any better despite many vain attempts to make it better.
>
> Decktop GUI's are certainly a mature technology, with little to
> improve upon.  Witness the abject failure of recent attempts to change
> it radically.

I never liked change for change sake. Always seemed counter-productive. 
Windows 8 is kind of proof of that.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien

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Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux x <x@x.org> - 2025-03-14 15:57 -0700
  Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-15 02:13 +0000
  Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-03-15 06:40 +0000
    Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-03-15 15:05 +0000
      Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-15 15:38 +0000
        Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-03-15 20:42 +0000
  Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-03-15 09:26 +0000
    Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-15 09:38 +0000
      Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-03-15 19:54 +0000
        Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-15 20:55 +0000
  Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-03-15 10:38 +0000
    Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-15 11:13 +0000
      Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-15 11:25 +0000
    Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-03-16 08:47 -0500
      Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-16 13:53 +0000
        Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-03-18 06:57 -0500
          Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-03-18 17:33 -0400
      Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-03-17 07:11 +0000
        Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-17 08:43 -0400
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