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Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
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Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
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That video's bullshit. People prefer old UIs because modern ui is shit, not because they're not creative. Computer programs are tools. It doesnt do anyone any good if they're unusable in the name of chasing moronic trends.
Like almost all bullshit that is believable by a multitude, it is couched in some very small truths.
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really understand GP's message. User's comment history seems pretty normal, why would they drop a random IG link here? Wrong article?
To anyone interested in the video, but without an Instagram account, gramsnap sometimes works. (Imginn.com sometimes works for viewing IG profiles.) https://gramsnap.com/en/instagram-reels-viewer/
The video is a word salad of self-aggrandizement and judgement. Don't bother. The dude holds up fashion as if it is some paragon of virtue.
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#44A pre-build floppy disk image would be great, so I could run it on my IBM PS/1 from a floppy.
Ok, I built the floppy image now. dd'ed it on a floppy and powered my IBM PS/1 up. Despite some nasty sounds of the HDD bearings that went away after 30 seconds, the floppy does not boot on this machine. Just a black screen. 386SX-25 2MB RAM. Maybe 2MB RAM too less, but I thought at least something will happen. :-)
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#45Part of why these images look so nice is because these systems were not so locked down.
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#46GUI looks a but BeOS inspired, but somehow even cleaner.
More like a Win 3.1 theme with BeOS colors and a NeXT desktop.
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
To anyone interested in the video, but without an Instagram account, gramsnap sometimes works. (Imginn.com sometimes works for viewing IG profiles.) https://gramsnap.com/en/instagram-reels-viewer/
The video is a word salad of self-aggrandizement and judgement. Don't bother. The dude holds up fashion as if it is some paragon of virtue.
The first sentence of your comment seems to describe 99% of social media.
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#48[flagged]
That video's bullshit. People prefer old UIs because modern ui is shit, not because they're not creative. Computer programs are tools. It doesnt do anyone any good if they're unusable in the name of chasing moronic trends.
I think there's a couple of different forces at play in the convergence of GUI design that we're seeing in the past 20 years. First, there's been a huge amount of widely accepted research that shows what the most accessible way to design an interface is. Things like Google's Material Design and Apples Human Interface Guidelines come to mind. Second, the widespread availability of those two specific design guides make it increasingly common for developers to just create to those. It ensures that things just work and are increasingly portable. Third, we're in a landscape where API stability and design is prized. That's partially because of the number of times that design has been broken by updates and version changes. It takes many years for developers to update their applications when a new back-end is developed, and the time in between gives broken applications, and ugly looking fallback. You can look at running GTK1 apps on modern GNOME, or X11 apps rendering on Wayland over the past decade for an example of this.
All that said, I truly miss the days when we had interface skinning. There was a skin for OS X called UNO that was absolute perfection in my eyes, and it was ported to an old version of Android back when skinning was a thing. There's nothing like it available now. Even GNOME is highly against theming and skinning now, apparently because they like breaking with every single release rather than maintaining an API/ABI and skinning support. The themes that were available for Windows XP were so much fun, even if you had to swap out DLLs to get them working.
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Itanium was released 25 years ago now...
Whilst that’s definitely old in computer terms, even “retro”, is it old enough to be “vintage”? Personally I’d have said it isn’t. But these terms are subjective.
"Vintage" usually refers to actually old stuff, while "retro" refers to new stuff that looks/sounds/feels like old stuff. So GentleOS is a retro OS designed to run on vintage hardware.
(That distinction wasn't clear to me either, so I had to look it up - TIL).
Re: Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really understand GP's message. User's comment history seems pretty normal, why would they drop a random IG link here? Wrong article?
The link is to a designer talking about how technology has led us to a design world that is mostly driven by nostalgia. I personally don’t see it as being applicable here as it deals with big design houses not hobbies, but I can see why someone might think it is.
What a designer might call nostalgia an actual user of an OS might call standard, or maybe even intuitive. The point of an operating system is to be used. If it’s pretty, that’s a bonus. Usability by the target audience is the primary concern.