Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/3/25 4:14 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 11:28:27 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Odd, since MATE - a superset of GNOME - expects you to use a menu. Its
very XP like.
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And since XP was what I was running when I switched entirely to Linux, I
didn't have to relearn very much at all..

 My first Windows box was 3.1 with the Program Manager. That was a little
primitive. Windows 95 introduced the Start Menu and for better or worse
became what I thought the desktop should look like.
 I forget all the managers I tried on Linux in the early days. mwm, tmw,
FVWM, IceWM, Sawfish, etc but I preferred the ones that looked like
Windows.

   My fave is still LXDE ... just enough GUI and
   behaves in a sane manner. Never liked LXQt though.
   If no LXDE, then XFCE.
   As for Winders ... Win-1.1 can be had from archive
   sites. Make a DOS VM then install. Oh WOW ... it's
   just as awful now as I remember  :-) Some of the
   stuff for C-64/128 at the time was nicer.
   This laptop is MX, with LXDE.
   Oh, oddity, have an old BYTE magazine with a
   REVIEW article of Win 1.1 ........ that's a
   keeper !