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Subject: Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux
Date: 15 Mar 2025 02:13:49 GMT
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:57:14 -0700, x <x@x.org> wrote in
<vr2c8a$27ero$2@dont-email.me>:

> Probably this has been asked an infinite number of times before in this
> usenet group but I do not have an infinite number of times to surf
> through an infinite number of posts.
> 
> A long time ago the Graphical User Interface came into existence and
> this was early on placed upon text operating systems (like CP/M) often
> to control program input from storage devices.
> (DOS and Windows are examples but there were others.)
> 
> People see upon generally two dimensional retinas but it is often seeing
> in a three dimensional space.
> 
> A lot of operating systems have two dimensional objects that can be 'on
> top' or behind other two dimensional screen spaces, but they are not
> quite three dimensional in a virtual 3D space.  The most I can think of
> at the moment is how once upon a time one could 'wave a paper'
> around slightly on open SUSE a while back, and that was mostly another
> 2D image.
> 
> Now Windows is only one OS that is generally with stifled innovation
> because it does not have a 'free and open source' license.  Linux
> however is not crippled and stifled in that way.  What add ons and
> operating systems now exist with 3 dimensional space as its GUI rather
> than a 2D one (like most GUIs)?

Compiz (and Beryl before that) has the ability to "float" windows above
a rotating cube.  Not sure how many people use compiz as their desktop
daily-driver.

Someone has also ported the 3D file manager "fsn" (as seen in
_Jurassic Park_) to Linux -- not sure how stable it is.

I just googled for 3D window managers for Linux, looks like there's
some experiments in this field.  Not much to go on, though.

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