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

[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.

[Sean Cunningham]

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[mahen]

After more than 20 years of systems switching / distro hopping etc etc. I would be INCAPABLE of saying what I prefer the most. I tend to find I can get used to anything and when that's the case, my opinion on the other environments change too...

So, at a time I was in love with AOS 3.x, with MorphOS, with BeOS, with OSX ; now I'm rather a Linux guy and I'm quite of fan of KDE (which customizability is similar to what I loved with AOS+MUI)... Also sometimes I love the look of x, y, or z, but end up finding it's unpractical...

So, I couldn't say but if I have to tell what, at one time or another, left me a strong impression I would say :

- end of 80s : Atari GEM / classic MacOS
- early nineties : AmigaOS
- end of nineties : BeOS / GNOME / Afterstep
- beginning of 2000 : MorphOS & OSX
- end of 2000 / now : KDE (Linux)

Edit : ah yes, Ambient/MorphOS was forgotten in the poll ; important choice IMHO

[Pyromania]

@Iggy

Solaris is a nice OS.

[SamuraiCrow]

I voted other.  I haven't read most of the thread but when I program in C++, I use wxWidgets because it uses the native gadgets of whatever OS you use.  In that way you don't have to choose, you let the end-user decide!

[smerf]

My vote is on Mac OS Classic, more specifically System 7. The simplicity and elegance of the GUI elements, along with the great bitmap fonts and icons made by Susan Kare are just perfect together. OS X is ugly by comparison.

Among Amiga systems my vote is on AmigaOS 3.x with MagicWB and MUI.

Wow, that is really nice, they finally added color, but I notice the folders are still in black and white, that is really nice, I guess someone made a mistake by adding color, it would look way better if you just stayed at black and white, and who knows by keeping it black and white it might be able to keep up with a 4k Vic. Just think of the possible speed improvement.

LOL!!

smerf

[smerf]

@Iggy

Solaris is a nice OS.

OMG!!!  You have to be older than me, if you are using that!!!

Have you tried the TRS80 model One yet, I hear it really out perfoms Solaris.


smerf

[Sean Cunningham]

And this is why we can't have nice things.

[Pyromania]

OMG!!!  You have to be older than me, if you are using that!!!

Have you tried the TRS80 model One yet, I hear it really out perfoms Solaris.


smerf

I think Oracle would disagree with you.

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/solaris11/overview/index.html

Enjoy your Trash 80, it went out of fashion in the early 1980's.

[Iggy]

I think Oracle would disagree with you.

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/solaris/solaris11/overview/index.html

Enjoy your Trash 80, it went out of fashion in the early 1980's.

I think Smerf was kidding Pyro.
BTW Smerf, I managed an independent Radio Shack in the '80's (and, yes, I'm probably older than most of you).
I think I still have a Color Computer 3 around here somewhere.

[takemehomegrandma]

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.

...and later you probably publicly expressed hatred against WinXP because of its looks? :p

[takemehomegrandma]

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:

[wawrzon]

@tmhg: what does it all matters, knowing how dependable aorg polls always been anyway?

[Sean Cunningham]

...and later you probably publicly expressed hatred against WinXP because of its looks? :p

It's very reminiscent of Windows style, it just does it better and cleaner.  Most of the Windows-like UIs the difference comes down to whether or not you let software engineers do your graphic design, hire a graphic designer or hire a good graphic designer.  Then this gets lots of details better simply by being DPS and not all pixel-y.  It's cleaner and has better use of tone.

[whabang]

My vote is on Mac OS Classic, more specifically System 7. The simplicity and elegance of the GUI elements, along with the great bitmap fonts and icons made by Susan Kare are just perfect together. OS X is ugly by comparison.

Among Amiga systems my vote is on AmigaOS 3.x with MagicWB and MUI.

I voted Linux because that's what I use to achieve something similar to this.

[TeamBlackFox]

When I get IRIX Magic Desktop configured just as I like it I'll have to post a picture. Its so elegantly simple and free of the stuff that makes OS X and GNU/Linux terrible looking. BSD is also a great OS, but it lacks the elegance. Its like an AKM vs a G3 rifle, the G3 is prettier, but the AKM sees far more use as a military weapon.