Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:37:05 -0700, John Ames wrote:

Classic MacOS *almost* nailed this, if only it hadn't been so quick
to dismiss the keyboard and the command line (and were designed from
the start for preemptive multitasking and memory protection...)

It took extra-cost hardware to do that stuff back then. That’s why the
Unix boxes cost so much more.

The Classic MacOS GUI was purpose-built for the technology of its day, but
it grew increasingly complex to cope as the technology evolved. Same is
true of every GUI. They don’t scale, or evolve gracefully. That’s why they
keep needing to be redesigned.

And that’s why a platform where the GUI layer is fully modular and
replaceable, indeed optional (*cough* Linux, BSD *cough*), is the best-
placed to cope with ongoing technological evolution in computing.