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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:45:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:03:18 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

> On 2025-06-12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:12:35 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>>
>>> I used to have the wobbly windows and spinning cube. One update
>>> stuffed it up, can't remember why ...
>>
>> Wobbly windows always worked in KDE 4.0+, though the desktop cube 
>> (actually prism) went away in 5.x. But it’s back!
> 
> Wobbly windows and Spinning cubes are out and muted colours, tiling and
> flat design and manga backgrounds are in.

In the proprietary world, you have to suck up whatever they put in front 
of you.

In the Free Software world, we continue to be free to exercise a choice.