Recently I’ve been thinking about just how goldarned stupid the desktop metaphor is. Think about it: you have a wide expanse of pixels, on which you can drag and drop files to your heart’s content. The thing is, it’s very, very inflexible, and doesn’t *really* help you get organized.
In fact, it’s too true to the metaphor – like your physical desktop, papers end up in piles, and similar or related papers tend to get grouped together. And just like your real desktop, the organizational scheme of your computers’ desktop is always one minor incident away from anarchy.
But the operating systems’ desktops (I’m talking to all three of you, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux…) are also less useful than your real desktop, in the following ways:
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