Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:05:22 -0000 (UTC), pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
wrote in <vr44vi$3o7e1$1@dont-email.me>:
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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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Well, at least there's a 3D file manager out there, though
it isn't being maintained.
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The "Jurassic Park file manager" (fsn) was cloned into a new
tool for Linux, "fsv".
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https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv
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