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

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:36:43 +0300, Tauno Voipio wrote:

On 11.6.2025 11.12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 10/06/2025 16:43, Robert Heller wrote:
 
 

(I think some sports cars and some heavy trucks, still have manual
transmissions.)
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Golly. Another example of USian utter ignorance
 
Manual sales still account for 30% of all cars in Europe.
 
 

There are manual gearboxes of many kinds. For an US version, google for
'Kenworth gear shift pattern'.

Like bicycles with 21 speeds a lot of those never were used unless you
were pulling stumps. By the '90s most over the road trucks were 9-speed.

I drove a Volvo White that had an Eaton overdrive transmission with a
different pattern.

1    2

3    4

I never got entirely used to it and would blow shifts if I was tired or
preoccupied. I've driven a lot of variations on the H pattern including 3-
on-the-tree but that was different. There was a lever on the gearshift so
the high range was the same pattern.  There was another L position that
was seldom used.