The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs

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[–]Anman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I recently had to come back to llinux after 20 something years when I bought a new modern mini pc for my van. Only options were win 10 or linux and win 10 can cockpick dickpockets. I started with ubuntu and its bullshit minimalist UI and at first I was like, I could work with this, it might be alright. 2 days later I droped the entire build as it was completely un customisable and forced all that faggot apple like elements. Even afdter installing cinamon it was a nightmare. Went to mint and put ubuntu kernel in and fantastic. Don't think you would need anything other than this, its quite flexible.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's an interesting read and I can read this stuff for hours. However, I think he doesn't get his point across well. He gives us a romp through things that are actually available for the OS and it reminds you of how lovely that is; there's nothing sad about that at all. Furthermore, he has a rigid concept of what a user interface can be. First he hints at the fact that one can have a completely different type of user interface, then he shows you more of the same. All of these are derived from the PARC user interface. As people have mentioned, there are also tiling window managers. But there's much more radical stuff too, such as CLFSWM. He could've showed us the Xanadu project, which is an interface focused on linked hypermedia. Also, the article contains an error. It says graphical desktops go back to the '80s, but actually, one was already demonstrated in 1968 at The Mother of All Demos.

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People like the windows style desktop, and it took 20 years to get here, where everything is boring and windows like. All 21 environments can install experimental and tiling window managers.

[–]question-the-garlic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure what other styles one could use. They all have to function on a 2-dimensional viewscreen, so... I agree that tiling windows managers are the next best thing.