Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 02:57:40

On 21 Apr 2022 at 11:25p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo>  te> So aside from superficial customization of the user interface,
 bo>  te> I'm not seeing what _most_ people are customizing.  Most people
 bo>  te> are not hacking the kernel.  Most people aren't hacking the
 bo>  te> services that start when the machine boots.  Most are just
 bo>  te> playing around with userspace stuff, which is fine, but pretty
 bo>  te> mellow.
 bo> Actually, depending on the Window Manager, it is far more than Window
 bo> Dressing.  Some (such as the one I use, FVWM), have their own language,
 bo> and you can script GUI actions.  You can get it to build menus on the
 bo> fly, any type of menu you can think of representing anything you want,
 bo> updated each time it is created.  You can do with the GUI what you can
 bo> kind of do with a shell (ie, close all windows belonging to this group)
 bo> or (close all windows on this page).  You can build basic graphical
 bo> interfaces with it, or with a keypress, run a script which also opens,
 bo> closes and moves windows.

Yeah, I get it.  I used to use a window manager written in
Common Lisp and you could do all that sort of thing.  However,
that's just mucking with the user environment; it's fine, but
not quite as deep as it is being made out to be, and can be
done on many systems.  From that perspective, there's essentially
no difference between any of the BSDs and Linux.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

.