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Best GUI of all time
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Gnome 2 and OS X in a split decision. It just depends on which iteration of OS X and which in Linux.
Leopard. Not because of it's fantastic capabilities as it didn't have any, but because it was the first time Apple put a retail fancy box on computer store shelves, heralding the start of where we are now!
I'm with maflynn: OSX and Win7; both very useful. But as I like also unix-style shells OSX is a bit in front
Back in the day OS/2 Warp was well ahead with their GUI, though the horsepower of the computers lacked the ability to drive their incredibly object orientated GUI, or it may been bloated code - either way it was superior to windows 3.1. Lack of apps and other factors doomed the OS
Well if Windows is included too I'd have to say XP. I guess if we're talking about groundbreaking then WIn95 / 98 would be in there too, but fort stability and pro tools XP was the one for me.
For me its legacy windows (3.1/95/xp), win7 and now win8 <- that because its such a radical change.
Good memories on that one; had it running on a 386SX. Too bad IBM didn't pushed harder.
Oh, and I loved GEMTOS on my Atari ST.
We are kind of wandering off topic, but GEM was great..especially for music.
I also liked DOS for it's totally geeky blank black screen and blinking cursor.
Is Win 8 really a huge change? I ask because I've seen it in action but never used it..I know it's supposed to be less resource hungry, but it still looked to be hampered by the need for AV, Am packages as well as the constant update screen every time you booted it up.
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Win 8.0 was a major change due to the metro interface replacing the start start button and task bar. With 8.1 you can choose to use the traditional start menu and task bar or the metro interface. The metro interface is good for touch based products, not so much for desktops imo.
On a device with a touchscreen, Windows 8(.1), hands down.
On a non-touchscreen device, either KDE or 10.3. 10.3, because it had some personality, KDE because I just think it's cool. It's not that functional though
On a non-touchscreen device, either KDE or 10.3. 10.3, because it had some personality, KDE because I just think it's cool. It's not that functional though
Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NEXTSTEP user interface. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. It is also free software, with contributions being made by programmers from around the world.
The Xerox Star came after the Xerox Alto. I used an Alto. Frankly it wasn't that great.
I saw the Star I think. What was afar the Star?
I remember some very cool 3d file system browser. Maybe that was at HP...
The Alto was not a commercial product. I used one that they had at Stanford in the Summer of 1980. The Star was a commercial product which was a failure in the market. I don't believe there was a successor.