[pjmlp]

Who cares about CDE, the classical UNIX desktop, as in the way that BSDs and GNU/Linux keep pushing for the old days with their fragmented stacks.

macOS, although a UNIX, follows the same ideolagy as NeXTSTEP, where UNIX compatibility was a means to bring software into the platform, and that was about it, GUI software was to be fully taken advantage of Objective-C Frameworks.

[otabdeveloper4]

My point is that "classical UNIX desktop" doesn't exist.

(Hell, even UNIX itself doesn't exist anymore. Linux and FreeBSD is its own thing now.)

[pjmlp]

It sure does exist, a large majority of Linux and FreeBSD users pretend they are still living in the 80's with vt100 and an improved twm.

As proven by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437173 making to the first page today.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Imagine the BLING if you combined that with this:

[X] http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/user-vt-screenshots.html

[otabdeveloper4]

> with vt100 and an improved twm

That's in no way a "classic Unix desktop". This is hipster nostalgia, like those indie "retro" pixel art videogames.

[the_only_law]

What is a classic Unix desktop then? Workstation running CDE/Motif?

[otabdeveloper4]

> Workstation running CDE/Motif?

Yes. "CDE" itself stands for "Common Desktop Environment". (Wikipedia says it was "part of the part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard", and if you remember the 1990's like I do, it was, indeed, supposed to be the "standard" desktop for Unixes.)

P.S. Linux isn't a Unix.

[5e92cb50239222b]

How do you find time for work? I see your comments shitting on everything that's not Windows pretty much everywhere.

[pjmlp]

https://xkcd.com/303/

You missed my praises for Apple and Google platforms.

[Ygg2]

What language do you use C++ or Rust?

[pjmlp]

Java, C#, and C++, mostly.