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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:20:45 +0100
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On 12/06/2025 15:33, Rich wrote:
> 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...
> 
I have a rotary knob, a few buttons and steering wheel paddles.
Can be anything from 'grandad mode' to virtually full on race mode with 
manual shifts.
Todays auto boxes are so much better than they were in the 1970s.

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