Desktop Metaphor

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 13:11, Geoffrey Oltmans <oltmansg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’ll throw in my two cents to say that I’ve used a fair number of GUIs over the years both commercially available and FOSS, and I’d say that Windows 95’s UI blew the doors off of anything I’d used up that point in terms of usability. Nobody IMO can fairly compare it with the previously available X based desktops. The Mac was good, the Amiga was good, but there was a lot more flexibility in how Win95 operated, and that’s probably why  (along with familiarity) that it has been so oft copied up to this point (Mac OS X’s UI notwithstanding, which is also quite good).

I'd go with that, actually, yes.

My personal favourite in recent years was Ubuntu's Unity, which is a
better Mac OS X than Mac OS X (IMHO).

But the fact that I like it and am comfy with it doesn't mean that I
don't want to see people trying to do something different...

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