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

[danwood]

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

[ElPolloDiabl]

Here some info on Win 8 usage:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/03/windows_7_xp_and_even_vista_gain_market_share_again/

Windows 8   %       5.93
Windows 8.1 %       6.61

[gertsy]

Here some info on Win 8 usage:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/03/windows_7_xp_and_even_vista_gain_market_share_again/

Windows 8   %       5.93
Windows 8.1 %       6.61

LOL,  pretty clever. They put forward the premise that Win 8.0 has actually declined. I wonder if that might have something to do with moving to 8.1 it being basically a service pack in the old vernacular.
And why so many people on XP not wanting to shift? Arrrrrg Pirates they be.

[commodorejohn]

And why so many people on XP not wanting to shift?

Maybe because XP lets them use their computer the way they've been using their computer for the last nineteen years and doesn't expect them to alter their entire workflow because Microsoft's design department isn't feeling appreciated enough?

[Sean Cunningham]

There's, apparently, folks still using NT.

I never was a fan of XP.  I had a nasty situation where after installing a high end Soundblaster the driver would, over a period of less than a day, cause the OS to eat and corrupt itself.  I couldn't believe that one.

[commodorejohn]

XP had a number of significant driver issues early on in its lifespan, but they really did get it together by SP2. It's on the clunky side by now, but it's still quite solid and usable.

[Sean Cunningham]

I don't doubt it.  But I lost a lot of time and all confidence in that OS so I was glad to be rid of those boxes eventually.  I couldn't install anything new without feeling like it was going to get the cancer again.  Of course, I'll never buy another product from the makers of the Sound Blaster either.  They were totally unhelpful and uninterested once I discovered the problem with my gold plated suppository.

[gertsy]

And in so far as Beauty my favorite skin and theme for XP was the Media Player 11 one.
Glossy black is beautiful.

[James2002]

And in so far as Beauty my favorite skin and theme for XP was the Media Player 11 one.
Glossy black is beautiful.

That right what wonderful memory. I miss them days. Media player 11 deserves praise.  I remember the old media player. It was very gray like with black buttons.

[gertsy]

That right what wonderful memory. I miss them days. Media player 11 deserves praise.  I remember the old media player. It was very gray like with black buttons.

Yeah, it's still available for XP, Vista, 7 : http://www.belchfire.net/themes_file-8323.html

[webmany]

I have always liked OS/2 Warp 3 desktop.  Of course I may have fallen down the stars 2 or 3 to many times.

[Wolfe]

No MorphOS?  Thats because it would win hands down before you added any extra effects.

Don't consider phones etc. as an OS, just a background manager.

Linux, Winblows, Unix and OSX . . . Blah!

Macintosh OS9 is a nice OS, so is Amiga OS but as with most of the good OS's its dated or not updated enough . . .

More the new and modern the more they suck!

[BCP]

My favorite GUI is that of Amiga OS4.1
followed by Mac OSX Mavericks, than Windows Vista.

[fishy_fiz]

In regards to out of he box, Id have to say MorphOS is the best looking Amiga-oid system.
OS3.9 is nice and clean, but requires a bit of tweaking of things like Reaction, MUI, fonts, etc. before Im happy (disregarding birdie and visual prefs, or afa_os for the moment). OS4 doesnt stray too far , mostly doing the theme creators take on those tweaks.

Overall though pretty much any OS can look similar to any other these days, so its all down to the artist of the themes rather than one system looking  better than another.

[Iggy]

It has not been mentioned here yet, but before WinXP was released, when Microsoft was hobbling along with ME, there was another OS/GUI I thought was stunning - SUN Solaris.

Here is a 10 year old screenshot.

[Sean Cunningham]

See, that's nice.  I don't know WTF people are thinking saying Motif is anything but the fat, uncoordinated kid at this schindig.  4DWM was born looking old, fat and kludgy by comparison.  That actually has appeal.

Which WM is that, BTW?  It doesn't look like NeWS, unless their's is just wildly different than 4Sight.