3D desktops

or watch porn

Pretty much never then

my thoughts have never been focused enough for something like that to work

It was useless. cool but useless

desktops are useless

Mouse is a 2D manipulation tool.

Because it's a mess. 3D/2.5D belongs in the UI, not navigation.

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all these herd minders
The real reason? No one has written a competent one. The desktop can help a lot in a good workflow, keep you on track and everything kept properly. Just like a physical desk holds everything you need, and everything has it's place, a virtual desktop does the same. Unfortunately, windows (lowest common denominator) software and the 16:9 aspect ratio have convinced people that desktops are useless, and to just use a browser for everything. Let's take phones for example. I can glimpse at my calander for the day, see if I have any new emails, look at today's forecast, jot down a quick note, and view last nights game score just from the homepage of my cell phone. That's without even opening any apps. Desktops, however, are fucking useless in current year. All the Linux DE's became windows clones, or people just use WM's and have become minimal to the point of nonexistence. Fuck that. Give me a DE where I can meta+3 to flip a 3-d window around to adjust a setting, before meta+3'ing again to be right back where I was in my work. Give me a DE where I can meta+scroll up to rotate a vertical halo till I get to my notepad, than meta+scroll down to be back where I was. The common trend today is to move away from GUI multitasking and do everything in the browser. Fuck this.

>Why didn't it took off?
because its a shitty silly concept that gives users no added benefits

>Give me a DE where I can meta+3 to flip a 3-d window around to adjust a setting, before meta+3'ing again to be right back where I was in my work.

Linux has workspaces dude. Actually even windows has workspaces. And I'm 100% certain that there are other programs that you can achieve similar things.

it's called Bumptop. it was later bought by google. you can see one aspect of it in android in how it is able to implement stuff like facebook messenger's chat heads bounce around on screen. not as flashy as bumptop, but pretty sure the idea and some of the tech is in that.

Because browsing a computer through a VR/mixed headset hasn't become mainstream yet. Microsoft is trying with their hololens though.

Rainmeter scripting is my language

3D Desktops will only catch on once they offer better throughput than traditional desktops.

Just like tiling wms they only really appeal to power users and a tiling wm will probably beat a 3d desktop for most cases.

I can really see VR / 3D desktops being useful for monitoring applications where you need to keep a track of multiple things but only zoom in to one or two of them.

All you fucking cunts have never heard of 3DNA and it shows.

its cool the first time you see it, then its just bloat and unnecessary bloat

here ill give you 2
cinnamon
GNOME

thang me later broah

With so many choices of desktop enviorments in Linux you figure SOMEONE would have done this, but no they all just conform to the mindless flat/material trends.

Shit was already a resource hog on Windows and that was probably with full acceleration
Linux would most likely be worse given all the various states of disrepair video drivers can be (it's the reason Firefox has acceleration disabled by default on Linux)

>it's the reason Firefox has acceleration disabled by default on Linux
It isn't. It's because Mozilla is shit. GPU drivers are excellent on Linux as long as you're not on open source nVidia ones.