Most beautiful GUI (OS 4, Windows 8, ...)?

[amigadave]

Windows 8 has the worst interface of them all.

I have to agree with that statement a thousand times over!  I don't usually hate anything, but have developed a strong hate relationship with my Win8 laptop (more like portable desktop at 17" LCD and hot i7 CPU, plus dedicated graphics card).

I think that most OS GUI's can be configured to look better or worse than their original state, so this poll is hard to answer.  Of the several different OSes I have here, currently I think that MorphOS and MacOSX are my favorites for visual beauty, with AmigaOS3.9 running the AmiKit enhancements as a close 3rd place contender.  Any of them can be modified to a point where they could easily switch places with the others, and that is where AmigaOS and other Amiga inspired OSes shine brighter than most other mainstream operating systems.

Some of the Linux distros I have seen over the years have been fairly good looking too, and even WindowsXP and 7 were not bad looking.

It is hard to believe something as ugly as Windows3.1 ever became popular enough to dominate, but then it was not the looks, or even the functionality that drove it's popularity to the top.

Sad that the person setting up this poll did not list all of the different Amiga inspired choices first, before running out of available choices.

[amigadave]

And like many others, I was completely puzzled why MorphOS (any or all) themes wasn't allowed in this post. It's like the dark ages over at AmigaWorld.net, where MorphOS was discarded as equally Amiga irrelevant as Windows, MacOS or Linux. But then again, here we have all of these (irrelevant) OS's mentioned. But not MorphOS.

:confused:

Several posters in this thread has already put forward many good looking MorphOS GUI's, so I won't bother. Especially not since it's obviously *off topic* in this thread! :rolleyes:

If you read the entire thread you would already know the answer to your question.  It was the original poster who created this thread and poll who left MorphOS off of the list, and had nothing to do with any of the moderators or owner(s) of this site.  Anyone can create their own poll of any type and choose which names to include or exclude from the poll options.

The original poster said that he just ran out of poll slots (only 10 are allowed by the poll system), before he got to including MorphOS.  It might have been an unintentional result, or it may have been an intentional insult, but only the original poster would know the answer to that question.  I PM'ed him asking that he try to be more considerate of all Amiga and Amiga inspired choices first next time he does anything similar to this poll, so as not to insult any of our forum members.