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

Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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?

In the US, with the exception of some sports car models (and maybe a
few truck models) it is all but impossible to buy a manual gearbox car.

As TNP said earler on in the thread, in Europe/Brittan such is not the
case as manual transmissions are more prevalent.  I do not know
anything re. the China market to even hazzard a guess for that marked.