Comment by userbinator

14 hours ago

Essentially a clone of Windows 11, and those screenshots make me realise just how much I hate the rounded corners, borderless vagueness, and excess padding of "modern" UI.

For contrast, this UI is more my style: https://serenityos.org/screenshot-b36968c.png

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thiht  9 hours ago

Is this serious? Looking at this I feel both bored to death (think "Severance gray office hell" boredom) AND overwhelmed because of the tons of decorations and useless creases and crappy icons and awful text and unnecessary affordances that only made sense 30 years ago when no one knew how to use a computer. Ugh

  • ulrikrasmussen  8 hours ago

    I agree with the parent comment, but I understand that someone who did not grow up with UIs that looked like that would think otherwise. I do feel that Windows 2000 was peak UI for desktop operating systems, but it's probably due to a combination of nostalgia and the fact that I deeply dislike modern Electron-based UIs with too few decorations and an overly minimalistic and non-customizable "we know best" attitude.

encom  14 hours ago

I too love that style, but it won't work today, because many apps today are Electron slop that disregards user preference and styles itself.