July 17th, 2021 at 9:42 PM
@tc4me obviously what constitutes a beautiful operating system is relative to the observer...
for me function > form = elegant.
it's why I prefer window managers that can do a mixture of terminal interfaces and graphical windows.
a decent TUI even removes the need for graphical windows in most cases.
For example, before I changed it up this was my own Debian setup running openbox for the graphical backend.
![[Image: zwvykhx.png]](https://i.imgur.com/zwvykhx.png)
![[Image: kHkoXyp.png]](https://i.imgur.com/kHkoXyp.png)
to me that's incredibly elegant and easy to use, though I recognize that to a lot of people this would feel fairly alien and difficult to use simply because of the reliance on a terminal shell despite it's low overhead and resource use compared to "modern" interfaces like windows 10, OSX, Gnome, Etc.
as a side note, I designed this interface to be used with my 21inch touchscreen, I've kinda shifted away from that to a nice mechanical keyboard and trackball mouse though.
for me function > form = elegant.
it's why I prefer window managers that can do a mixture of terminal interfaces and graphical windows.
a decent TUI even removes the need for graphical windows in most cases.
For example, before I changed it up this was my own Debian setup running openbox for the graphical backend.
to me that's incredibly elegant and easy to use, though I recognize that to a lot of people this would feel fairly alien and difficult to use simply because of the reliance on a terminal shell despite it's low overhead and resource use compared to "modern" interfaces like windows 10, OSX, Gnome, Etc.
as a side note, I designed this interface to be used with my 21inch touchscreen, I've kinda shifted away from that to a nice mechanical keyboard and trackball mouse though.
"I reject your reality and subsitute my own." - Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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