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My point is that "classical UNIX desktop" doesn't exist. (Hell, even UNIX itself doesn't exist anymore. Linux and FreeBSD is its own thing now.)

pjmlp 5y ago
It sure does exist, a large majority of Linux and FreeBSD users pretend they are still living in the 80's with vt100 and an improved twm. As proven by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437173 making to the first page today.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
  How do you find time for work? I see your comments shitting on everything that's not Windows pretty much everywhere.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/ You missed my praises for Apple and Google platforms.
    - Ygg2 5y ago
      What language do you use C++ or Rust?
      - pjmlp 5y ago
        Java, C#, and C++, mostly.
        Ygg2 5y ago
        Wait a minute, C# doesn't compile that long :)
        pjmlp 5y ago
        There are these things called CI/CD and integration tests.
        Ygg2 5y ago
        Funny. Worked on few C# projects. Most I have seen was ~10min. My own project takes like 400ms.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  Imagine the BLING if you combined that with this: [X] http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html
- otabdeveloper4 5y ago
  > with vt100 and an improved twm That's in no way a "classic Unix desktop". This is hipster nostalgia, like those indie "retro" pixel art videogames.
  - the_only_law 5y ago
    What is a classic Unix desktop then? Workstation running CDE/Motif?
    - otabdeveloper4 5y ago
      > Workstation running CDE/Motif? Yes. "CDE" itself stands for "Common Desktop Environment". (Wikipedia says it was "part of the part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard", and if you remember the 1990's like I do, it was, indeed, supposed to be the "standard" desktop for Unixes.) P.S. Linux isn't a Unix.

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My point is that "classical UNIX desktop" doesn't exist. (Hell, even UNIX itself doesn't exist anymore. Linux and FreeBSD is its own thing now.)

by otabdeveloper4 5y ago

pjmlp 5y ago
It sure does exist, a large majority of Linux and FreeBSD users pretend they are still living in the 80's with vt100 and an improved twm. As proven by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437173 making to the first page today.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
  How do you find time for work? I see your comments shitting on everything that's not Windows pretty much everywhere.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/ You missed my praises for Apple and Google platforms.
    - Ygg2 5y ago
      What language do you use C++ or Rust?
      - pjmlp 5y ago
        Java, C#, and C++, mostly.
        Ygg2 5y ago
        Wait a minute, C# doesn't compile that long :)
        pjmlp 5y ago
        There are these things called CI/CD and integration tests.
        Ygg2 5y ago
        Funny. Worked on few C# projects. Most I have seen was ~10min. My own project takes like 400ms.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  Imagine the BLING if you combined that with this: [X] http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html
- otabdeveloper4 5y ago
  > with vt100 and an improved twm That's in no way a "classic Unix desktop". This is hipster nostalgia, like those indie "retro" pixel art videogames.
  - the_only_law 5y ago
    What is a classic Unix desktop then? Workstation running CDE/Motif?
    - otabdeveloper4 5y ago
      > Workstation running CDE/Motif? Yes. "CDE" itself stands for "Common Desktop Environment". (Wikipedia says it was "part of the part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard", and if you remember the 1990's like I do, it was, indeed, supposed to be the "standard" desktop for Unixes.) P.S. Linux isn't a Unix.