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

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:27:07 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

I had no idea automatic transmission had taken over vehicles worldwide.

I'm not so sure about "takeover worldwide".  In the US market manual
transmissions are but a tiny tiny sliver of the sales pie.  Such that
most models outside of sports cars (and even most of the sports cars
offer automatics as an option) and trucks are automatic only.

So is that now prevalent in new cars even in places where automatic
transmissions were an unusual sight?

In the US, yes.

Of course ATs are different animals now than the 2 speed PowerSlides
from the '50s.

Indeed, with the exception of professional race car drivers, most
modern automatics will by far "outshift" an average joe's ability to
manipulate the gears in a manual.