[Info-vax] Taking a break - Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Calls Resume

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/3/22 10:55, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <4ae4de33-ba0d-403a-83a0-3959ce51076fn at googlegroups.com>,
> roland at logikalsolutions.com (seasoned_geek) wrote:
> 
>> So far, everyone I know that does phone apps and used to use QT
>> has jumped to Dart. They are writing their apps using Dart on
>> Fuchsia.
> 
> How many organisations and apps is that? Qt hasn't exactly dominated UI
> in smartphone apps AFAIK.
> 
>> Microsoft is going to sell a Windows Desktop that installs on the
>> Linux of your choice, just like KDE, Gnome, etc.

We had a window manager that imitated Windows back in the good
old days, FVWM95.  It was never popular and while FVWM appears
to still be around the Windos95 flavor does not.
> 
> Will it run existing Windows programs? Doing that requires having a large
> fraction of the Windows OS, over and above the desktop.

Windows managers don't run anything.

bill