Back in the days prior to OS X, I used to run Linux on the desktop (dual booting with OS 9) and used Window Maker. Since then I’ve used Linux a fair bit but only on servers – I have all the UNIXy goodness I need in OS X. I’ve just looked into setting up another Linux desktop system to see how viable it is and found that Window Maker still hasn’t made it to a 1.0 release – in fact, it hasn’t seen an update since 2005.

It’s a bit of a shame, I guess Window Maker wasn’t exactly a shining example of innovation considering it was a copy of the NeXt UI, but at least its aim in life wasn’t to look like Windows. Looking at it now I don’t expect that I’d actually want to use it (though running in VMWare really doesn’t help perceptions) but I just don’t see the point of running Gnome or KDE – they’re like Windows but not as well done.