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

On 12/06/2025 15:33, Rich wrote:

Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> 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.

 If you like, consider "gearshift" as "a lever that selects a drive
mode" such that it covers the 2% manual transmission folks, and the
"PRND2L" handle for an automatic.  Although some, newer automatics, do
have the "PRND2L" as "buttons on the dash" -- so in those cases there
isn't a gearshift lever at all...
 

I have a rotary knob, a few buttons and steering wheel paddles.
Can be anything from 'grandad mode' to virtually full on race mode with manual shifts.
Todays auto boxes are so much better than they were in the 1970s.
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