Do we need Win95/98/Me support?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bernard Helyer" <b.helyer at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Monday, 23 January 2012 at 11:15:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> [1] I don't even know what the fuck to call any of them anymore. "Window 
>> manager", "Desktop Environment", "Shell", "Compositor", and if I'm not 
>> mistaken there's even some damn hybrids or some such, and some can be 
>> used together, some can't, bleh.
>
> A window manager handles window bar controls, positions of new windows, 
> and the like. A shell is merely a term for something that allows input to 
> the OS. A compositor takes the pixels pushed by other parts of the stack 
> and applies GL magic to them. A Desktop Environment takes several of the 
> above and packs them together in a single environment to create something 
> (hopefully) cohesive.
>
>>They're all the same damn things as far as I can
>> tell :/
>
> That's because you don't know what you're talking about. :P
>

When it comes to that stuff, I really don't!