Even worse than Ubuntu's Unity..........
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not to hijack this thread or anything... but i rather like unity.James C wrote: Even worse than Ubuntu's Unity..........
Hi 8-bit,8-bit wrote:Nope.
It was a desktop interface with big buttons that was supposed to make Puppy easier for old folks.
And the program had been around for a number of years if I remember correctly.
I cannot remember the author of it though.
Seems to me Microsoft Windows 8 Metro is going back to the 3.1 interface. Kind of like an app window and dropping the menu interface. Ah well, ten years time and a few hundred $$$ lighter, I'm sure MS users will get menu windows back hyped as the next big thing.So tired of the Win8 is bigger/just like Windows 95 talk from Microsoft.
Windows 8 is the anti-95.
Win32 programs didn't gave you the feeling that something is amiss compared to Win 3.1 applications. (with Metro you have this feeling constantly). Even the first generation Win95 programs at launch felt more capable than their 3.1 precursors (Corel Draw 6, Office 95). Notro provides the complete opposite feeling.
Windows 95 came with uncrippled winfile.exe and progman.exe (the win 3.1 GUI), and you were able to boot directly into it without even seeing 95's explorer.exe at all ("shell=progman.exe" in system.ini). (works in win 98 too) There was even an official option at the Windows 95 setup for that if you upgraded from Win3.1.
You also were able to directly boot into DOS with ease (just set bootgui=0 in msdos.sys, that also worked in Win 98.)
Windows 95 is the anti-thesis to Windows 8. The philosophies were completely different. The team had enough courage to provide all these options because it truly seemed as if they were proud and confident about the system to stand on its own. Windows 8 on the other hand comes across as coward's darling - "the users are too stupid to appreciate our beautiful hippster GUI, let's cripple the desktop as much as we can to force them to this". Windows 95 didn't need any crippling, users have chosen explorer.exe because it was better, and they had the ability to use the old GUI without compromise If they wished to do so.
Windows 95 is confidence. Windows 8 is cowardice.
Win-8 could be the "new Coke" of OSes. Coke wanted to switch to a cheaper product so they made "new Coke" taste awful so that when they brought out a new product and called it "Coke Classic" people would see it as better than the previous product and not compare it to the version before that. Win-9 in this theory will have a "Menu" button and not a "Start" button and come with fewer free things but be basically Win-7 all over again.darrelljon wrote:Ah well, ten years time and a few hundred $$$ lighter, I'm sure MS users will get menu windows back hyped as the next big thing.