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Windows NT/9x/2000 represented the high point for aesthetics. Light grey, rectilinear, clear delineation, all contributed to being easy on the eye and functional. Glad to see it make a comeback.
Windows until recently could be reskinned to look like Win2K, though I doubt that Windows 10 still can.
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> I guess maybe maglev ruby on the gemstone platform does move the needle a bit closer: For Ruby, "pry" gets you at least some of the way there with MRI. It's nowhere near the "full experience", but it has taken a lot of inspiration from Smalltalk, and it's just an entirely different world compared to IRB.
I should clarify; I specifically meant being able to do stuff like write a high level sketch of a module, then simply run it, and implement missing methods and classes as you go. Similar to writing a red/failing test - then filling in functionality. I suspect a image-like (as in lisp/smalltalk image) view of the code is needed for this to work well (hence the link to "persistent code" for maglev/gemstone). That said,…
Does it run on 386SX with 2MB of RAM? Apart from lack of coo-processor (which I understand), I do not understand why nearly ALL modern operating systems(Including Linux since 2.4 I believe) are hard-coding the kernel to not boot under 4/8 MB of RAM, even if it could in theory. Why there is hard-limit of 4, 8, 64 MB of RAM in many kernels of various operating systems? Is it fail safe "just to be safe" or because there…
> SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. More like a love letter to Windows 95 :) It doesn't really have much in common with the Unix GUIs available around that time, which were mostly Motif-based (think FVWM, CDE etc). In fact it looks so Windows-like (including the applications) that my first impression was that this was another go at making something like ReactOS. But cle…
But FVWM(95) is also a love letter to Windows 95, isn't it?
Windows NT/9x/2000 represented the high point for aesthetics. Light grey, rectilinear, clear delineation, all contributed to being easy on the eye and functional. Glad to see it make a comeback.
Win2k was my last Windows, and still the best I've seen.
Versions 8 and 10 may be even better, engineering-wise -- 10 certainly crashes or hangs even less frequently than 7 -- but since they won't let you you fix the crappy GUI any more, their usability suffers much more than the increased stability can compensate for.
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[1]: Pretty much like Vista, with that super-annoying "Glass"(?) transparency bumf as default... I think.
[2]: This, too, was whittled down over time. In XP, and I think in Vista too, you could set window border width to any value down to and including 0 in TweakUI. By W7, you needed to edit a Registry value to get this below 1.
> SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. More like a love letter to Windows 95 :) It doesn't really have much in common with the Unix GUIs available around that time, which were mostly Motif-based (think FVWM, CDE etc). In fact it looks so Windows-like (including the applications) that my first impression was that this was another go at making something like ReactOS. But cle…
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Configuring the Windows desktop to look like Windows NT makes me feel 20 years younger!
Can it still be done? I thought the Classic theme was removed in Windows 8 (and remains absent in 10).
But no, alas, the old UI seems to have been permanently deleted from Microsoft's own repertoire; at least I can't find it.
I'm unlikely to ever use this project, follow it closely or interact with the creator but it still makes me extremely happy to see someone working on a project like this, with the goals, motivations and context that Andreas discusses. Thank you for making the world a little bit better at a time when it feels so crazy.
The author seems to be against providing ISOs, which is a shame, I'd love to try this out.