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0 pointspjmlp1mo ago0 comments

There were others out there, e.g. Oberon, Lilith,...

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That's where I learned the power of tiling. Years of using the Acme text editor.

When you also learn drop down menus are not needed either.

Yup, but "normies" do need menus or at least some way to do things that has some degree of visual affordance (e.g. a persistent cmd/ctrl+p, which I think Office has/had).

delaminator1mo ago

not everyone can drive a Ferrari

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delaminator1mo ago

That's where I learned the power of tiling. Years of using the Acme text editor.

When you also learn drop down menus are not needed either.

zamalek1mo ago

Yup, but "normies" do need menus or at least some way to do things that has some degree of visual affordance (e.g. a persistent cmd/ctrl+p, which I think Office has/had).

delaminator1mo ago

not everyone can drive a Ferrari

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse