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minus-square1984@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down4·edit-21 year agoThey weren’t wrong. There is no need for a panel, you can just type what program you want. It’s not year 2000 anymore. Besides, Plasma is much more like Windows. It has panels, lots of windows and bugs.
minus-squareRoboRay@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·edit-21 year ago you can just type what program you want. It’s not year 2000 anymore. Typing the name of the program you want is a 1970s thing.
minus-squareRoboRay@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOnly a bit tongue-in-cheek… :) Sometimes typing something is better, sometimes just clicking a button is better. It just depends on… too many things to list.
minus-squaresping@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYep, because we realized the pointy clicky hand-eye coordination paradigm is often not an improvement.
minus-squareEmperor Palpapeen@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago@TCB13 @RoboRay I don’t remember a distro or DE that lacked a command line. Hell, even windows never actually abandoned it.
minus-squareRoboRay@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoSure, which makes it curious that the previous comment implied that it’s a new thing since 2000 when it’s actually a very old thing.
They weren’t wrong. There is no need for a panel, you can just type what program you want. It’s not year 2000 anymore.
Besides, Plasma is much more like Windows. It has panels, lots of windows and bugs.
Typing the name of the program you want is a 1970s thing.
Good response to be honest. :)
Only a bit tongue-in-cheek… :)
Sometimes typing something is better, sometimes just clicking a button is better. It just depends on… too many things to list.
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Yep, because we realized the pointy clicky hand-eye coordination paradigm is often not an improvement.
@TCB13 @RoboRay I don’t remember a distro or DE that lacked a command line. Hell, even windows never actually abandoned it.
Sure, which makes it curious that the previous comment implied that it’s a new thing since 2000 when it’s actually a very old thing.
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