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From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
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Subject: Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:05:22 -0000 (UTC)
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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.


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