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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: vtm: tiling window manager with drag and drop
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:32:42 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>>>
>>> That's close to what I thought.  I think we've reached a point where a
>>> lot of good stuff is already done and we don't really need more, even
>>> though people can do amazing stuff.
>>
>> Reinventing the wheel can be good for learning, but I definitely agree.
>
>Yes, I agree too. It seems computers UIs and tools generally have stagnated. At
>least when it comes to operating systems.

I disagree.  The commodity "IT" systems have not stagnated, but gone 
backward to a point where actual usability is less than it was a decade
or two ago.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."