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

Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

The real world equivalent would be if one's car's UI completely changed
with each new model year.  One year there is a steering wheel, on the
left, with the gearshift in the center console.  The very next year
there's a pilot joystick instead of a steering wheel, and the shifter
is now a motorcycle style twist handle at the top of the joystick.  The
third year you get "feet operated steering pedals" and "hand powered
brakes" via a center console lever, with the gearshift being a slide
lever embedded in the door, etc.

 
Gearshift? Only cars from the last millennium have that.

If you like, consider "gearshift" as "a lever that selects a drive
mode" such that it covers the 2% manual transmission folks, and the
"PRND2L" handle for an automatic.  Although some, newer automatics, do
have the "PRND2L" as "buttons on the dash" -- so in those cases there
isn't a gearshift lever at all...