Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops?

From	Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops?
Date	2017-03-12 20:38 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<oa4pho$tqt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I've been recently fighting a major uphill battle with adding a second
monitor to my desktop, and in what is quite possibly a fit of insanity,
went and compiled CDE from source. The end result is surprisingly usable
though Motif has some hiccups with dealing with X apps that are a bit
too smart (pinentry-x11) for their own good.

I'd like to say that this is a *NIX only problem, but Windows 8 and 10
also pail in comparison for usability and "getting stuff done" that 7
had. I've used most of the major desktop operating systems, every
version of Windows, OS/2, classic Mac OS, OS X from 10.1 to 10.5, and
even worked professionally on both Debian and Ubuntu and I never
remember fighting my systems as much to do simple basic things. So I'm
curious if comp.misc in general agrees with me, or thinks I'm out of my
mind. If you do agree with me, I'd also like to know why, and what
you've done about it.
Michael

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Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-12 20:38 -0400
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2017-03-13 12:58 +0000
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-13 21:03 -0400
    Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-13 22:31 -0400
      Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-14 23:17 -0400
        Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2017-03-15 07:00 -0500
          Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2017-03-15 11:37 -0400
            Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2017-03-16 08:29 -0500
              Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2017-03-16 16:22 +0200
            Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2017-03-18 20:02 +0100
              Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-03-19 19:06 -0400
                Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Michael Casadevall <mcasadevall@soylentnews.org> - 2017-03-24 12:58 -0400
    Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Pham Nuwen <phamnuwen@example.com> - 2017-03-14 09:50 -0700
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-03-14 03:03 -0500
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-03-14 11:47 -0400
  Re: Am I the only one sick of "modern" desktops? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2017-03-14 12:42 +0200

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