Custom windows shells (I know this is just a window manager, but still) in the year of our lord 2025? This takes me back to the days of installing bb4win and litestep in XP. I'm a kid again!
I start explaining, very carefully, like I'm talking to a child, that this is an alternative shell, which replaces the standard Windows Explorer et cetera, und so weiter... it's very complicated you know...
Guy says, "cool... hey, why don't you check out this URL?". I do. It's the litestep contributor page. His nick is on it. Near the top.
Ow.
I mean, I remember there being a whole ton of wildly customized windows shells with menus and floating terminals and so on, but not a single thing stuck around?
Besides, the term innovation is used far too much with respect to software, in the sense that a lot of stuff can be traced back much further than the so-called innovators will suggest. Many ideas have deep roots, but it took several (often independent) attempts until the technology or its users were ready for it.
Brings back memories !