Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux

On 2025-03-15, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

On 2025-03-14, x <x@x.org> wrote:

Probably this has been asked an infinite number of times before
in this usenet group but I do not have an infinite number of times
to surf through an infinite number of posts.
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A long time ago the Graphical User Interface came into existence
and this was early on placed upon text operating systems (like
CP/M) often to control program input from storage devices.
(DOS and Windows are examples but there were others.)
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People see upon generally two dimensional retinas but it
is often seeing in a three dimensional space.
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A lot of operating systems have two dimensional objects
that can be 'on top' or behind other two dimensional
screen spaces, but they are not quite three dimensional
in a virtual 3D space.  The most I can think of at the
moment is how once upon a time one could 'wave a paper'
around slightly on open SUSE a while back, and that
was mostly another 2D image.
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Now Windows is only one OS that is generally with
stifled innovation because it does not have a 'free
and open source' license.  Linux however is not
crippled and stifled in that way.  What add ons and
operating systems now exist with 3 dimensional
space as its GUI rather than a 2D one (like most
GUIs)?

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About the only use of 3D in the Linux Desktop that I've seen is the 3D cube.
I played around with it once. I didn't see much point in it, it seemed more
like a gimmick than anything else.

I remember trying out that one. Kind of interesting but it tended to get me dizzy
for some reason.
Like you say, a gimmick.

But I'm guessing you're speaking of something more complex than that 3D
cube.

That's how I read it.


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