Re: The ONLY things going for it were
A J MacLeod :
Sorry, too lazy to look up when Gnome and KDE came into being, and over-paranoid about factoring in actual uptake - forgot that when I started on 'Linux late '99 it was already on KDE 2.
WindowMaker not old?
The main body of the WM still works, but looks dated, but the WM-Apps widgets are truly dusty, they're like a dusty old telegraph station in a 'old west' ghost town, half the distros I've tried it on they either don't compile or the backends are extinct.
When WindowMaker was resuscitated a few years back, I thought the first thing would be updating those.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
