Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: 9 Jun 2025 18:13:11 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <101tsvg$en0o$1@paganini.bofh.team> <6843417c$0$8575$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <20250609093835.0000784c@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Lu40+2SjNmcUn9ABhHp9TwgKEmC98YjXElnU4OufL12Ucuc8+F Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZEf94EbhIMvDYKA+xmZNz8G5h5Y= sha256:hKJDV8pNpnXSCSD5ERh4WsHBW+QQecZU1fQdfP5oZzg= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:38:35 -0700, John Ames wrote: > GNOME Team was actually completely forthcoming about this, at the time: > they, like MS, had bought entirely into the tech-press narrative of the > Glorious Tablet Future, where desktops and laptops would vanish in a > Cloud of pixie dust and the mouse would be obsolete as everyone used > touchscreens for everything and shut up "gorilla arm" totally isn't a > thing so there (remember that? Remember how they were also adamant that > voice control and dictation would obsolete the keyboard for about 15 > minutes, before some non-idiot pointed out that whole offices full of > people yakking at their computer all day would result in an epidemic of > workplace shootings?) A friend was a quadriplegic but had enough arm control that he could type using splints that took regular pencils. He went through a lot of pencils as the erasers wore down. I asked why he didn't use speech to text and he mentioned the possibility of getting shot. Microsoft has a text to speech API that I played around with but it never got any traction. Same deal, computers chattering away in a dispatch center might lead to mayhem. I recently bought an Amazfit Active 2 fitness device. By default it would tell you when you started an activity, when you went a mile, and give a summary when you finished. First project was figuring out how to shut it up. I might talk to the cat but I'll be damned if I'll talk to Alexa or anything similar.