Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:57:14 -0700, x <x@x.org> wrote in
<vr2c8a$27ero$2@dont-email.me>:

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.
 
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.)
 
People see upon generally two dimensional retinas but it is often seeing
in a three dimensional space.
 
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.
 
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)?

Compiz (and Beryl before that) has the ability to "float" windows above
a rotating cube.  Not sure how many people use compiz as their desktop
daily-driver.

Someone has also ported the 3D file manager "fsn" (as seen in
_Jurassic Park_) to Linux -- not sure how stable it is.

I just googled for 3D window managers for Linux, looks like there's
some experiments in this field.  Not much to go on, though.

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