Desktop Metaphor

[John Ames]

> Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 18:59, Paul Berger via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is my issue with a lot of Linux distros they seem to try to hard to
>> look and work like mac or like windows while I would rather have them
>> look and work like the xwindows I knew and loved.  One of my biggest
>> aggravations is cut and paste I would very much rather it worked more
>> like it used to on X.
>
> If you want it old-style, build it old-style.
>
> Install the minimal or server version of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora,
> whatever you want, then install X.org and your window manager of
> choice.
>
> This is how I have been experimentally assembling GNUstep desktops for
> years now.

Have to concur with this. Even the "minimalist" (i.e. non-GNOME/KDE)
*nix "desktop environment" projects these days are getting so bloated
that I've given up bothering with them and set up an X environment one
component at a time. Currently running Window Maker with SpaceFM and
ROXTerm; getting it all properly set up and tweaked to my liking took
some doing, but the payoff was well worth it.

Now if I could only excise the GTK3 blight entirely, I'd really be set.