An introduction to the Haiku OS • Hacker News Board

Post by ido » Wed, Jan 05, 2011, 10:14 PM UTC

fingerprinter wrote: post #11

Several things 1. I'm an OS junkie. I love installing, fiddling and learning new OSes. I installed BeOS and used it for about 2 years (no joke) back in the day. LOVED IT. I even had it replace my Slackware instance for about 6 months as my primary system. 2. I love seeing OSes still actively developed even if they aren't popular. I think it keeps driving ingenuity and pushes other people. But, I don't get why we have…

    3. The interface has to go. It was clunky 
    back then and now it is downright horrendous 
    compared to nearly any interface we have. 
    Gnome might feel like 2004, but this feels 
    like 1997.

I use windows 7 at work and os x 10.6 at home (as well as ubuntu 10.10 in VirtualBox) and I can't see what feels like 2004 about gnome, or what feels like 1997 about this one.

In fact I can't off the top of my head really think of any major UI improvement between windows xp (2001) & 7 beside the clever resizing/positioning of windows & the new task bar.