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

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:46:36 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

I had a Yaris two-door + hatchback. Manual tranny (heh heh). It was
peppy and zipped around on/off ramps.

The 2007 had a MT and was fun. Through some miracle there was no traffic
when I played with a Mini on California SR 1. The Mini kept up and
eventually turned off at a restaurant past Big Sur. 

https://www.motortrend.com/features/modp-1108-yaris-club-sport-challenge
https://www.jalopnik.com/this-adorably-intense-japanese-yaris-race-is-
everything-1822197728/

Unfortunately the narration in the second is in Japanese.

 

It had handle-rollup windows, which was a bit irksome in the South
Carolina summer heat.

When a cop came up on the passenger side and I reached across to roll down
the window his first words were "I didn't know they made cars with manual
windows anymore.".  The current one does have power windows and door
locks. No remote entry but Toyota puts the parts in j.i.c. The 2007 didn't
have a radio but I was happy to find it had speakers and a harness. A dash
kit and pigtail and I was good to go.

My nephew called it a "clown car".

I didn't think about it until I was stopped for road construction at the
Lassen Volcanic NP. The flagger said "That's a really little car!"

The next Yaris's were purportedly a bit less durable, cheaply made.

I have to be careful. The one I have is a genuine Yaris with the same
engine the original one had. The 5-doors are rebadged Mazda 2s with Mazda
engines. Even the oil filters are different. It only has one wiper. I had
a counter guy at Napa actually go out to verify it didn't have the two
blades the book said.
 

One funny thing about that car and the manual Fiesta I bought... the
trolls trolled heavily about those cars. As if I cared about their
nonsense.

Consumer Reports said it was a piece of crap only suitable for the city.
The furthest I made it was Virginia when I crossed over at the Breaks
Interstate Park. I lose enthusiasm fast when I leave the Rocky Mountain
Front but I wanted to do some hiking in the Appalachians. It rained and
continued to rain until I crossed back over Wolf Creek Pass. I met a box
turtle walking down the trail at the Frozen Head SP in Tennessee locking
for a dry place to live.


Come to think of it, when I went back to the northeast in 2004 it rained.
I tend to forget that the east is a humid swamp.