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On 1/3/25 4:14 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 11:28:27 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> Odd, since MATE - a superset of GNOME - expects you to use a menu. Its
>> very XP like.
>>
>> And since XP was what I was running when I switched entirely to Linux, I
>> didn't have to relearn very much at all..
> 
> My first Windows box was 3.1 with the Program Manager. That was a little
> primitive. Windows 95 introduced the Start Menu and for better or worse
> became what I thought the desktop should look like.
> 
> I forget all the managers I tried on Linux in the early days. mwm, tmw,
> FVWM, IceWM, Sawfish, etc but I preferred the ones that looked like
> Windows.


   My fave is still LXDE ... just enough GUI and
   behaves in a sane manner. Never liked LXQt though.

   If no LXDE, then XFCE.

   As for Winders ... Win-1.1 can be had from archive
   sites. Make a DOS VM then install. Oh WOW ... it's
   just as awful now as I remember  :-) Some of the
   stuff for C-64/128 at the time was nicer.

   This laptop is MX, with LXDE.

   Oh, oddity, have an old BYTE magazine with a
   REVIEW article of Win 1.1 ........ that's a
   keeper !