[GTALUG] Favorite desktop manager?

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 7:30 PM Robert Brockway via talk
> <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> In my view computers should change to suit humans, not the other way
>> around.
>
> So thankful that I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
> Is there any way to make this louder (so its heard in a greater area?!?!?!?

Good question.  We've moved further towards "one size fits all" as the
years have passed.

This was done partly to make support easier but it's possible to have a 
default interface and let people customise as well.  We can have our cake 
and eat it too.

I think one of the great strengths of *nix is that it doesn't make 
assumptions about how a person uses the computer.

*nix will let different users have different environments *and* let them 
all use them at the same time.  They can even be in different timezones on 
the same system.

I was thinking about the origins of the PC recently.  IBM considered using 
their own 801 CPU.  Imagine how different the world might be if they had 
done that and used even a cut-down Unix system, or another multi-user OS. 
MP/M (multi-user CP/M) was already available by the time the PC was 
released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_801

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP/M

Cheers,

Rob