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0 pointspeterwwillis14y ago0 comments

Close.

I've been using WindowMaker for 10 years. It's pretty perfect. No gimmicks. No unnecessary features. Lots of flexibility. Minimal. User friendly. Fast. Stable. It just works.

If someone has used Windows 95 before, a whole slew of operating systems after will be intuitive and a random user will know how to use it without instruction. They don't need anything more advanced. They just need it not to crash or bloat or change and become confusing. Most people just want shit to work.

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msh14y ago· 2 in thread

Last time I used windowmaker it required hand editing config files, thats a pretty long way from shit that just work for most people.

peterwwillisOP14y ago

I've been using this handy graphical tool called WPrefs that ships with WindowMaker (since at least 1998). The only time I hand-edited a config or menu was to enable functionality which nobody ever used (hiding all dock items but keeping icons small and visible and preserving both global and virtual desktop-specific icons/windows depending on context).

msh14y ago

I think I last used windowmaker around 2004 and I have a distinct recollection of editing configfiles. Maybe I am remembering wrong.

I still think that OSX provides a much better GUI than WM, which should not have been introduced according to your logic and so people would miss out on improvements (but i miss focus follows mouse...).

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