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Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux

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On 2025-03-15, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2025-03-14, x <x@x.org> wrote:
>> Probably this has been asked an infinite number of times before
>> in this usenet group but I do not have an infinite number of times
>> to surf through an infinite number of posts.
>>
>> A long time ago the Graphical User Interface came into existence
>> and this was early on placed upon text operating systems (like
>> CP/M) often to control program input from storage devices.
>> (DOS and Windows are examples but there were others.)
>>
>> People see upon generally two dimensional retinas but it
>> is often seeing in a three dimensional space.
>>
>> A lot of operating systems have two dimensional objects
>> that can be 'on top' or behind other two dimensional
>> screen spaces, but they are not quite three dimensional
>> in a virtual 3D space.  The most I can think of at the
>> moment is how once upon a time one could 'wave a paper'
>> around slightly on open SUSE a while back, and that
>> was mostly another 2D image.
>>
>> Now Windows is only one OS that is generally with
>> stifled innovation because it does not have a 'free
>> and open source' license.  Linux however is not
>> crippled and stifled in that way.  What add ons and
>> operating systems now exist with 3 dimensional
>> space as its GUI rather than a 2D one (like most
>> GUIs)?
>
> About the only use of 3D in the Linux Desktop that I've seen is the 3D cube. 
> I played around with it once. I didn't see much point in it, it seemed more 
> like a gimmick than anything else.

I remember trying out that one. Kind of interesting but it tended to get me dizzy
for some reason.
Like you say, a gimmick.

> But I'm guessing you're speaking of something more complex than that 3D 
> cube. 
That's how I read it.


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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
          Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-03-21 15:41 -0400

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