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

Borax Man <rotflol2@nospam.com.ii> wrote:

Discipline is indeed what is lacking.  I'm an advocate of leaving things
that are working alone.  Not reinventing the wheel over and over.
Software developers say that if we didn't reinvent the wheel, we'd be
driving chariots with wooden wheels.  The thing is, we don't reinvent
the wheel every 5 years!

What those 'developers' overlooked is that we didn't 'reinvent the
wheel'.

A modern wheel is, functionally, largely the same as that chariot wheel
a thousand years ago.

What got 'invented' were better materials out of which to make said
wheel (iron, steel, aluminum, various rubber compounds for tires, etc.)
and better ways of attaching the wheel to the axle (bearings,
lubricants, etc.) and better ways of suspending the axle to allow
greater movement of the axle than the carriage (suspension arms,
springs, shock absorobers to quell oscillations in those springs, etc.).

But the 'wheel' itself (a round disk attached to an axle so it can
rotate) did not get reinvented.

Some get so wrapped up in "inventing a new (different) wheel" they
completely forget about "inventing an improvement in the existing
wheel" is also very much a thing.