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

On 2025-06-11, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:27:07 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
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On 2025-06-10, Marc Haber wrote:
 

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

The real world equivalent would be if one's car's UI completely changed
with each new model year.  One year there is a steering wheel, on the
left, with the gearshift in the center console.  The very next year
there's a pilot joystick instead of a steering wheel, and the shifter
is now a motorcycle style twist handle at the top of the joystick.  The
third year you get "feet operated steering pedals" and "hand powered
brakes" via a center console lever, with the gearshift being a slide
lever embedded in the door, etc.

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Gearshift? Only cars from the last millennium have that.
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Greetings Marc

 
I had no idea automatic transmission had taken over vehicles worldwide.
So is that now prevalent in new cars even in places where automatic
transmissions were an unusual sight?

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It's been coming for a long time. My father did not like ATs and even in
the '60s it was difficult to find a manual transmission outside of sport
cars. After he died my mother went shopping for a new car. This was a
woman who had taught her father to drive back in the '20s and I had to
convince her she could drive an automatic. She caught on fast and also
appreciated power steering and power brakes.

Weird. I've seen new enough cars (at least from the very end of the last
century, or maybe even early 21st) with manual transmission. If that
required a special order, I've not heard of it (that of course does not
imply it didn't happen, though).

Other than US TV shows, I think some new buses may be the only places
where I've seen automatic transmission lately.

 

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Nuno Silva