Bud Frede wrote:
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I have various things that I want a computer to do for me, and I'd
rather that it do them with the minimum of muss and fuss. I don't want
my desktop environment to change radically every few years like it does
with Windows, KDE, or Gnome. That means that I also avoid distros like
Arch or Fedora. I got my fill of constantly fiddling around with the OS
20 years ago.

i've been happy with using Debian with the MATE
desktop (for this older machine it's about all it can
do well other than even more basic window managers).


I'm sure that some day someone will come up with a new paradigm for a
desktop GUI that will be a major improvement over what I'm using now,
but so far I haven't seen anything that's truly better - just
different.

once they get direct wiring to the brain figured out
the whole game changes completely. i expect i will opt-
out of that interface (seeing how bugs and hackers are
still a feature of the landscape and i don't expect that
to change).


(I did think that Sun's Project Looking Glass had some very
useful features, but I think it was ahead of its time since the graphics
chipsets at the time weren't really adequate to do 3D with good
performance.)

anytime you are into graphics to a significant
extent you are talking memory/processor power, but
the onboard graphics in the CPUs has been coming
along pretty well.


songbird