You assume ROX was better than anything on the Linux desktop the time, that assumption would be false. Rox didn't do anything extraordinary or better than the desktops or window managers of the day.
I don't assume, I know because I was there.
> that assumption would be false. Rox didn't do anything extraordinary or better than the desktops or window managers of the day.
Name a single modern Linux DE that supports drag-n-drop saving, or AppDirs.
An answer of "I don't use those features so therefore they aren't important" is not acceptable.