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Re:X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach by MisterTea on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:51AM (#22737500)
Both. glibc... No. And without boring you with anecdote I can sum it up by saying: Linux DE's feel like cheap Windows XP or OSX knockoffs. What's worse is every DE and their forks have their own duplicate DE companion programs such as explorer and notepad clones. I liken them to a Potemkin village; well polished but once you start looking behind things...
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Re:X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach by cycloptic on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:58AM (#22738123)
If your complaint is that you dislike clones of Windows and Mac, then the combination of tiling window manager, shell, tmux, and vim/emacs is usable and provides an experience that is completely different from those other operating systems. That didn't go away on Linux. There is also plan9port too.
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Re:X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach by spease on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:31PM (#22745025)
No, the problem is that people keep reinventing the wheel over and over again, instead of picking one app and improving it so that their efforts are cumulative.
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