Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

In search of the distraction-free computer desktop

Well, duh. I seem to recall a discussion about Linux and GUIs some time ago on this very tumblelog. Now Mac and Windows users are rediscovering the principles various windows managers and other UIs have had on Linux since, well, last decade.

I’m kicking myself for not trying out Ratpoison, xmonad, making use of virtual desktops, etc., when I was a Linux user. On Windows, changing the fundamentals of the UI is hard to impossible depending on what you want to do, and I don’t know about OS X, but there certainly doesn’t seem to be any tradition for experimenting with the fundamentals of the user interface there.