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

On Fr 20 Jun 2025 at 10:37, John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

So, well...no, there is no specific example I can point to and go
"there, *that!*" - if there was, I'd be using it. The closest real-life
approximation I can cite is Mac System 7/7.5 - the most pleasant and
consistent GUI environment I've ever encountered - but even that has
its issues, as previously noted. Other systems exhibit good ideas of
their own (I like BeOS's treatment of tabs as an integral part of the
desktop experience, though the implementation could be less clunky,) but
"niceness" is mostly something glimpsed in frustrating little twinkles
that catch the attention and stir the heart amid a present day that is,
by and large, a great oceanic garbage heap of churning not-particularly-
niceness.
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But I *don't* believe that it's some unachievable Platonic ideal; every
problem I have with extant systems seems very much like a solvable one,
if only they weren't too married to legacy considerations to adopt a
solution. If I had infinite time and/or no hobbies that were more
important to me, I suppose I could try to create such a thing myself -
but I am, tragically, a mortal with way too much on my plate as it is.

What do you think about Genera (the Symbolics Lisp Machine OS)?
I think it had a very good GUI that combined CLI and GUI in a symbiotic way.

'Andreas

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