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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux
Date: 15 Mar 2025 19:54:21 GMT
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On 15 Mar 2025 09:38:04 GMT, vallor wrote:

> On 15 Mar 2025 09:26:07 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr>
> wrote in <67d547af$0$29714$426a74cc@news.free.fr>:
> 
>> Le 14-03-2025, x <x@x.org> a écrit :
>>> What add ons and operating systems now exist with 3 dimensional space
>>> as its GUI rather than a 2D one (like most GUIs)?
>> 
>> In fact, each time you have transparency, you have 3D.
> 
> Compositing does sort of have that effect, but I think he was looking
> for something more like "lawnmower man" (I think).
> 
> https://github.com/capisce/mazecompositor

When the thread started I was thinking more in lines of a Linux distro 
that required you to wear funny glasses with red and green lenses rather 
than using perspective and shadowing to give a depth effect like artists 
have been doing for centuries.

As for rotating desktops, quivering windows, and all the rest of the 
stuff, I can live without it.