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kragen on Aug 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Unix and Windows are very, very similar and they ...

xmonad is a window manager, not a GUI. You use it to move windows of a GUI around and resize them. The GUI is what happens inside those windows.

trav4225 on Aug 29, 2015 [–]

I see your point and don't disagree.

Using these semantics then, this is all user-layer stuff, and even less of an argument against "UNIX" itself. :)

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