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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by moonchrome on Friday January 21, 2022 @01:31AM (#30019931)
>most Linux folks have known this since the early 90s, where KDE, GNOME, etc. were vastly superior to anything Microsoft was putting out.

Saying this and also claiming revisionist history, this has got to be satire ?

Early 90s Linux desktop ? From what I can tell KDE/gnome started development in 97.

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Re:The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward by danieldk on Friday January 21, 2022 @02:12AM (#30020224)
From what I can tell KDE/gnome started development in 97.

KDE started in 1996, but I remember running one of the first alphas in 1997 (Alpha 2?) and being relieved that Linux had finally something that somewhat resembled the Windows 95 UI. Before that people were primarily running tvm or fvwm (CDE was still closed-source), which was fine for Unix-heads, but nowhere close to the gold standard that the Windows 95, NT 4, or macOS classic were.

(Ps. fvwm95 was released pretty soon after Windows 95, but only had the look of Windows 95, not really the usability.)

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