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

[Sean Cunningham]

I see what you mean Sean. Honestly I never leave IRIX or Solaris in its default GUI configuration...

And perhaps 6.x is a lot better.  By around 2001 I'd worked on my last IRIX box because the R10K was just too slow anymore.  The Quadro and Fire-GL cards in the mostly Intel boxes that replaced SGI at places like ILM, DD, Sony, Disney, Dreamworks, etc. weren't as good as the graphics subsystems available from SGI, not even close, but the days of $90K, $75K, $55K and even $25K workstations were over and SGI just weren't able to keep up in that sector, ironically falling victim to PC technology the same way SGI killed the mini and took a major bite out of mainframe and supercomputer markets not quite 20 years prior.

That's something I don't get, because losing so many customers all at once put them in a major bind there for a while, so much so they had to sell off Alias|Wavefront even though Maya was an industry standard.  They should have become a major player in the graphics accelerator market and killed Nvidia and ATI at the professional level, since they never could be bothered to do pro level drivers.

[Ancalimon]

The best GUI I think is the one which you can customize to most.

Change every aspect of the GUI.

For example adding countless animations to everything ranging from iconifying to resizing your windows or even switching screens.

[KimmoK]

About the default GUI looks I like AmigaOS4 the best.
(my MorphOS setup looks also nice after small tuning, slitaz looks nice, same for bodhi. but it seems if I tune Linux looks, I end up in situation where it malfunctions. Amigalike systems seem more robust for "tuning".)

So far there is not any "perfect" for me... so, customizable GUI is best for me.

[Nearly-Right]

I just wondered as we are supposed to be all inclusive here, then seeing as we have 'infected' ourselves with an option in the poll for WinXP, & Vista, & Win v8 of the Microsoft OS's, even old Classic Mac OS & the Mac OS X's GUI, then WHY is MorphOS, which is as Amiga-like as you can get, NOT given a specific item/button to vote on in this current poll?

I tried OS4, I'm not keen on the OS, but the OS looks OK, but is overly expensive as is the hardware, and does not work so well for me and my hardware.

Wheras the GUI of MorphOS looks really great, is customisable, works on a variety of 2nd hand Apple G4 hardware, now affordable, is based on Amiga OS3.1, uses MUI as it's main GUI implementation, has a laptop option - the Powerbook G4, now entirely working wirelessly with support for the Airport Extreme cards, and gets updated every few months it seems, even more often than that on occasions.

So, come on guys, show some support where it's due, and offer MorphOS an option button in this poll, and make it fair ! :lol:

[eliyahu]

@Nearly-Right

the original poster didn't include the option, and the polls only allow for ten options.

-- eliyahu

[Nearly-Right]

Well that sounds very narrow-minded if MorphOS wasn't considered yet Windows 8 and Mac OS Classic gets an option but not MorphOS.

Needless to say then I won't be voting, and that more than likely goes for many other MorphOS users - if they are being side-lined like this, not very fair of Amiga.org to allow such a narrow minded poll to be run, IMHO.

[eliyahu]

@Nearly-Right

what on earth are you talking about? :confused:

none of the staff posted the poll, we didn't approve the poll. the OP created the poll; anyone can make a poll -- so can you.

-- eliyahu

[smerf]

I agree with Karlos, on Amiga Os 3.X, how could anyone vote for a Mac OS, I get nausea just thinking about Mac OS, you really have to be a diseased person to even touch a Mac. I made a mistake once and bought a Mac, lucky thing I had hazardous material training in the Navy and still had my old suit, wouldn't of touched that mini mac any other way. Threw it out in the street once and someone threw it through my truck window, saying how day I throw this junk out in the street. Left it on a street corner saying free for the taking, and someone called the police and said I was contaminating the city, had to take it back in the house. Lucky thing I had my hazard suit or else the police would of made me go to the hospital for a checkup.

My second best GUI is Linux, using Zorin 8.0, looks and feels like windows, but doesn't crash and works. It now takes care of all my important stuff, like how many dollars I have, doesn't have to work to hard in this category though, it always reads 0, LOL.

Have fun and don't contaminate the U.S. don't buy a Mac, Apple, or whatever. Windows is better then Mac's, Windows only crash twice a year, Mac's just die, and at their price, well you know.

[Sean Cunningham]

You really shouldn't go off your meds.

[gertsy]

Other.  C64 GEOS for me.  

[Sean Cunningham]

Other.  C64 GEOS for me.  

Hah-hah, I used this in high school before I got my Amiga.  And I had one of those crap thermal printers.  When I printed out reports I was essentially giving my teacher "scrolls", lol.

[esc]

Just throwing this out there - my various linux desktops win, but that's due to the customizability and the community

[KimmoK]

btw. I prefer drawers. No folders on Amigas, please.  ;-)

@smerf

Zorin 8 looks nice, must try!

(I believe I have many many times suggested some features for Amigalike OS. Now Zorin 8.0 seems to have some of them.
(videos + effects on desktop background, and this http://zosimg.webs.com/lookchanger.png))

hmmm... there was some effects for 68k wb background: http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/wbstars2

[ElPolloDiabl]

I might as well bring it up again...

An OS use to be a way to get to your programs. Now they hog up 1GB to 10GB of your hard drive. It probably started when MS 'had' to integrate internet explorer into Windows 98.
There is no easy way to turn off default features.

[KimmoK]

I might as well bring it up again...
An OS use to be a way to get to your programs. Now they hog up 1GB to 10GB of your hard drive. It probably started when MS 'had' to integrate internet explorer into Windows 98.
There is no easy way to turn off default features.

M$ wanted to make features to sell new OS versions. They did not care to optimize because:
- People did not have any alternative to windows on x86
- RAM+CPU capabilities seemed go up automagically when they release slower than before SW. They even built in things like flight simulators to excel.
- it was normal/ok to force people to buy a new computer in every few years
- support of hundred thousand expansions needed gigabyte of drivers (M$ plug and play wanted all of them on HDD, wether you need it or not)
- etc...

@topic
Ot some point my A2000 looked like this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qLTDyJicgOA/T_Dx33083II/AAAAAAAAAV0/QQgTGoddwEY/s640/classicamiga_emu02.png
(source: http://amigax1000.blogspot.fi/2012/07/classic-amiga-emulation-on-x1000.html)
But on 1.3, the copper background was even more cool.

[danwood]

No MorphOS in the options?! Ok well I guess OS4 at a second choice.