# Absolutely.

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Absolutely. The linux desktop (even with tiling WMs) is not a good example of
a meaningful alternative. We don’t have any of the attributes I covered in
[Composability, Homogeneity, and Language-based
Systems](https://hackernoon.com/composability-homogeneity-and-language-based-
systems-fb00e2c2458) in X. Interesting alternatives to the Apple UI guidelines
are substantially more obscure & lie generally far outside the UNIX ecosystem
(although plan9 has some of them).

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [November 5,
2018](https://medium.com/p/b675e7c8cbad).

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/absolutely-b675e7c8cbad)

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