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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:27:07 +0100
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On 2025-06-10, Marc Haber wrote:

> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>The real world equivalent would be if one's car's UI completely changed 
>>with each new model year.  One year there is a steering wheel, on the 
>>left, with the gearshift in the center console.  The very next year 
>>there's a pilot joystick instead of a steering wheel, and the shifter 
>>is now a motorcycle style twist handle at the top of the joystick.  The 
>>third year you get "feet operated steering pedals" and "hand powered 
>>brakes" via a center console lever, with the gearshift being a slide 
>>lever embedded in the door, etc.
>
> Gearshift? Only cars from the last millennium have that.
>
> Greetings
> Marc

I had no idea automatic transmission had taken over vehicles
worldwide. So is that now prevalent in new cars even in places where
automatic transmissions were an unusual sight?

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Nuno Silva