If I had to take a guess, it's the DOS roots ... one program at a time on a single user system. Not being good ones for real innovation, and not perceiving a strong desire for it, they left it alone? -Greg Neumann
From: Smoot Carl-Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date sent: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:20:03 -0700 Subject: Re: [social] Re: Thanks (about XP and multiple workspaces) > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:21 -0500, Gregory J. Neumann wrote: > > Yes, an add-on exists, but I don't like it at all. What's the point > > of multiple workspaces on XP if they make your AthlonXP 2000+ w/ 1 > > gig of RAM run slower than GNOME on a P-III 450 w/ 512 meg RAM? It > > was so slow and annoying that I ditched it the same day. It's easier > > (at work) to live w/ the cluttered single desktop and some sort of > > performance. Something both KDE and GNOME do way better than XP, so > > chalk one up for Linux (or any *nix) being more ready for the desktop > > than Windows. ;-) > > It is puzzling the Windows stuff is so inefficient, since the concept > has been around a long time. I first used multiple desktops with FVWM > over 10 years ago on a Solaris workstation. Even Sun OpenLook had that > feature and CDE certainly did. I really could not be productive without > it. > -- > Smoot Carl-Mitchell > System/Network Architect > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cell: +1 602 421 9005 > home: +1 480 922 7313 >
