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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:27:13 -0400
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Rich wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> 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.
>
> If you like, consider "gearshift" as "a lever that selects a drive 
> mode" such that it covers the 2% manual transmission folks, and the 
> "PRND2L" handle for an automatic.  Although some, newer automatics, do 
> have the "PRND2L" as "buttons on the dash" -- so in those cases there 
> isn't a gearshift lever at all...

The Honda Fit had paddle shifters on the steering wheel, iirc.

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