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Why does a tool that is called Window Maker have windows and icons that have the looks from previous century? It almost reminds me of my Atari ST with GEM or maybe I'm exaggerating, let's say windows3.11 of the nineties. Yes I know this is Linux, but still.

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I find it refreshing. At least it's not preinstalled candy crush, advertisement in the start menu, forced updates, unresponsive and bloated software, and constant prompts to collect more telemetry.

That's the other extreme that frankly you only get if you click 'continue' or 'okay' everywhere and don't bother to do any tweaking. I must say, I most liked the win98 times when things got more stable and a lot less bloated than today (sollitaire and pinball were quite okay).

Would you say refreshing is the right word? I would say barebones.

Windows 98 was many things, but stable was not one of them. The os would crash if you left it running for too long

> That's the other extreme that frankly you only get if you click 'continue' or 'okay' everywhere and don't bother to do any tweaking.

No, that's the default on Windows 10/11. Much of which cannot be opted out of without tweaking.

It's supposed to look like NextStep in it 3.x versions. If you look at screenshots of that operating system it will be very clear.

Last century they still made windows as opposed to rectangular areas on screen of different gray shades, where the poor user has to try to see if is there any function associated with them.

Looks nice to me. Also it's very lightweight and fast. I ran WindowMaker on a 500mb RAM machine back in the early 2000s and it was very snappy.

Off topic, but do you play chess with Death?

I play on Lichess, so yes, you could say that. Too bad this name was taken by someone else on Lichess. Love Bergman, by the way.

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