Re:Microsoft explains why you can't move Windows 11 Taskbar
by phendrenad2 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:50PM
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Virtual desktops have been in Linux/Unix since 1984 or so. Why steal them now? Obviously there's more to the story than "Linux tastemakers made it trendy". Also many of the things you mention (such as cross-device mouse movement) actually started out as commercial products, on Mac, before going to Linux. So to say they were stolen from Linux is just ignoring their history. "Microsoft stole Xyz" is a sure-fire way to get clicks in the Linux/Mac community, but you need to take those stories with a healthy dose of skepticism.
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Re:Microsoft explains why you can't move Windows 11 Taskbar
by rektide on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @04:29PM
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None of these defenses work for me. I 100% see Microsoft chasing the puck of the good, engaged, active user communities- the ones from other platforms. That Linux has been doing it for a long time & Microsoft is only just catching up doesnt change the reality, just shows how bad MS is at adapting to & trying to do more. There's little enough demand to push further, get better there!
I cant find any evidence of a predecessor to Synergy on Mac. Synergy was launched in May 2001, initially for for X11.
Good ideas always happen elsewhere. GUIs getting ripped off of of Xerox is no surprise. Overall there is, I'd claim, extremely little genuine innovation in UIs. GNOME seems to be one of the few out there willing to keep re-beginning, doing radical refreshes, but it's still not like boldly vastly different than other things. But Linux users, with their libre attitudes, are out there exploring & finding what is possible & what makes sense, across dozens of window mamagers & thousands of add-on components & endless exploring/reconfiguring... not just consuming. Of course MS is watching & borrowing the emerging stuff.