Sujet : Re: Do Microsoft?s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 30. May 2024, 08:27:48
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On Wed, 29 May 2024 08:02:14 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
Spoken like someone who's never used Windows 2000. That version of
Windows was spectacular ...
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
The best looking, and functioning, GUIs of the 1990s were the Unix
workstations. That is the heritage that Linux comes from. Windows was a
toy by comparison.
For example, SGI were the pioneers of real-time 3D interfaces, back when
it took fiendishly expensive hardware to do such things. Again, today’s
real-time effects on *nix build on that heritage.
I already mentioned multiple desktops from the OSF crowd. Sun did tear-off
menus. Note also other innovations like focus-follows-mouse, taskbarless
desktops, cut/copy/paste in terminal windows, and the Compose key as a far
more mnemonic way of typing non-ASCII characters than the clumsy Windows
alt-character-code rigmarole.