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>X11 is the antithesis of Unix philosophy. It tries to do a hundred unrelated things (compositing, clipboard, drawing, input, etc...) And it works. Do you avoi
by GhettoComputers 5y ago
>X11 is the antithesis of Unix philosophy. It tries to do a hundred unrelated things (compositing, clipboard, drawing, input, etc...)
And it works. Do you avoid desktop environments since they do everything, emacs which might as well be an OS, or music players that can also rename music too? Is a messenger app something you will never use if you can call or send music or pictures on it? My file manager can rename files, show pictures, rename them, and even open compressed files. Why is the Unix philosophy relevant when most linux systems use systemd?
Do you even follow "Unix philosophy"? Installing a bunch of plugins to make wayland do 100 unrelated things is the same result.
- pantalaimon 5y agoActually Gnome 2 was really nice about that modularity. You could swap out the panel, the window manager or the file manager as you pleased. That's what really turned me off Gnome 3, they basically threw away an entire ecosystem of third party apps. MATE was able to pick of some of that, but especially when it comes to third party support, that level was never reached.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoXFCE still has that in it, and there are DE that are pick and choose, but I find it hilarious that having useful features means Unix philosophy is being violated and its and its bad that it has functionality that users enjoy.