Post #4022041

2026-07-22 23:33 UTC

So I'm gonna try to be a LITTLE systematic here, and go through the replies to my #UNIX / #Linux / #BSD poll about desktop environments, and run another poll maybe for 2 days rather than 1 Also I think I'll put in an option for "no graphical environment" because surely there are users who prefer only sparing use of graphical applications. I wonder, has anyone ever written a command-line only method for, like...launching X11 applications that does some horrible trick like using libsvga and acting as its own X server

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-22 23:38

Gotta be honest. Not sure exactly when the change occurred but I realized something within the last day or two: the sparkle's back. #Computing is FUN again. I feel like #BSD has been a vital component of that rediscovery: it feels more like what really got me into programming in the first place, being able to use the SDSU Sparc stations. As a drab ordinary user I learned to love the Macintosh, but as a programmer I learned to...respect UNIX. Not love it, but I realized at least that there was a value to its style and it felt better for programming. But that was something about the Macintosh: it offered that option. I never really got into MPW but I knew about it. It was a funky sort of command-line approach to Mac programming. It had that classic Mac weirdness, like it was weird in a good and useful way rather than weird as a calculated commercial thing the way Steve Jobs (bites thumb in his direction) wanted Apple to be. And he got his way, the slimy conniving piece of [expletive deleted]. ~Chara of Pnictogen

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