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ori_b 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

The plan 9 interface has evolved quite a bit, but it's largely invisible in screenshots. The differences are in things like triple click behavior, jumps to insertion points, effective use of mouse cursor warping, chording.

lproven 4 months ago [–]

Screenshots -- or GIFs -- of Plan 9 compared with Inferno would be most instructive.

The Plan 9 folks I've talked to are a bit shocked by this, but I preferred Inferno's GUI to plain old Rio/Acme etc.

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