Thank you for supporting my argument! I assume that you are not suggesting to not question Rob's conclusions from 3 decades ago. Indeed, we're no longer in the 90ies, we moved from mouse to touch input, and back then having no insight into today's user behavior and not yet having seen newer design patterns is why it's time to tackle the figurative fence. That's only part of what I'm saying though. I mean to look at the design of the system at large. We did that here in Germany with the Berlin wall. Tore it all down, that is. I don't see the point in particularly looking at American stereotypes in this context though. The world is much bigger. I'm all for sparking joy. :-)
On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM Stanley Lieber <[email protected]> wrote: > if i understand correctly, i think the plan 9 authors’ disagreed that > window systems such as rio push complexity on the user. the argument went > like this: > > https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/transparent_wsys/ > > in 2025, people don’t even bother to argue with this anymore, since > everyone seems to accept as a foregone conclusion that the desktop is the > ur primitive that sparks joy in real americans, but the assumption wasn’t > always thus. > > it’s fine to disagree, but remember to look out for chesterton’s fence. > > sl > > *9fans <https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest>* / 9fans / see discussions > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans> + participants > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/members> + delivery options > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription> Permalink > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf84d656c78bbda91-M1fe81aa328b84a9129ace7ef> > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf84d656c78bbda91-M8e9aeb82efc08eb8faa1993e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
