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Subject: Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux
Date: 15 Mar 2025 15:38:23 GMT
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:05:22 -0000 (UTC), pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
wrote in <vr44vi$3o7e1$1@dont-email.me>:

> On 2025-03-15, RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-03-14, x <x@x.org> wrote:
>>> 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)?
>>
>> About the only use of 3D in the Linux Desktop that I've seen is the 3D
>> cube.
>> I played around with it once. I didn't see much point in it, it seemed
>> more like a gimmick than anything else.
> 
> I remember trying out that one. Kind of interesting but it tended to get
> me dizzy for some reason.
> Like you say, a gimmick.
> 
>> But I'm guessing you're speaking of something more complex than that 3D
>> cube.
> That's how I read it.

Well, at least there's a 3D file manager out there, though
it isn't being maintained.

The "Jurassic Park file manager" (fsn) was cloned into a new
tool for Linux, "fsv".

https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv

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