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

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:35:13 +0200
Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> wrote:

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.

That one's still on my to-do list as far as trying it out. (I have a
couple Alpha boxen I could run it on, just haven't gotten around to it.)
From what I've seen looking at overviews/screenshot tours, it strikes
me as one of those systems that's heavily tailored and likely very nifty
for one specific use case or workflow, much like Plan 9 - I prefer a
user environment that's more generalized and agnostic about what you're
doing to one that's hyper-focused on assisting with the *doing* part,
when what I actually *want* to do may not be the thing it was designed
to facilitate.

(My overall philosophy of computer interaction: I want something simple
and consistent in the mechanics so's I don't waste mental energy having
to *think* about how it works, and beyond that I'd prefer it to stay
out of my way and just let me work. All other things being equal, I'd
*also* like it to be aesthetically pleasing.)

But this is, admittedly, first impressions from a distance; should
really get around to trying it sometime.