<story><title>Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>I really like WindowMaker and similar clones, but &lt;i&gt;(warning: ranting)&lt;/i&gt; I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native tooling, which mostly only exists in GUIs for specific window managers&amp;#x2F;docks. Unless you&amp;#x27;re using one of a few popular desktop environments, Linux is a shitshow of bad user interface (and even some of them like Ubuntu seem to lack functionality that used to exist). I&amp;#x27;m probably moving to Windows soon just so I don&amp;#x27;t have to spend &lt;i&gt;days&lt;/i&gt; to get an affordable machine from 2 years ago to achieve basic hardware functionality like &amp;quot;graphics&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;wifi&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blackhaz</author><text>Interesting. And I&amp;#x27;ve recently moved to FreeBSD and let it imitate a Mac with Xfce, and I have graphics, Wi-Fi, black jack and hookers [1]. I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trafyx.com&amp;#x2F;?p=2551&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;trafyx.com&amp;#x2F;?p=2551&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterwwillis</author><text>I really like WindowMaker and similar clones, but &lt;i&gt;(warning: ranting)&lt;/i&gt; I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native tooling, which mostly only exists in GUIs for specific window managers&amp;#x2F;docks. Unless you&amp;#x27;re using one of a few popular desktop environments, Linux is a shitshow of bad user interface (and even some of them like Ubuntu seem to lack functionality that used to exist). I&amp;#x27;m probably moving to Windows soon just so I don&amp;#x27;t have to spend &lt;i&gt;days&lt;/i&gt; to get an affordable machine from 2 years ago to achieve basic hardware functionality like &amp;quot;graphics&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;wifi&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcelerier</author><text>&amp;gt;  I partially abandoned it because of how absurd it is to try to run a Linux system without DBUS-native toolin&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m probably moving to Windows soon&lt;p&gt;so when you migrate back to windows will you also go to services.msc and disable everything ? AFAIK windows won&amp;#x27;t even let you disable its RPC broker.</text></comment>