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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 17:22:26 +0100
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On 12/06/2025 15:51, Rich wrote:
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:27:07 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>> I had no idea automatic transmission had taken over vehicles worldwide.
> 
> I'm not so sure about "takeover worldwide".  In the US market manual
> transmissions are but a tiny tiny sliver of the sales pie.  Such that
> most models outside of sports cars (and even most of the sports cars
> offer automatics as an option) and trucks are automatic only.
> 
>>> So is that now prevalent in new cars even in places where automatic
>>> transmissions were an unusual sight?
> 
> In the US, yes.
> 
>> Of course ATs are different animals now than the 2 speed PowerSlides
>> from the '50s.
> 
> Indeed, with the exception of professional race car drivers, most
> modern automatics will by far "outshift" an average joe's ability to
> manipulate the gears in a manual.

None that I have ever driven do.

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