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Oh, what pretentious bullshit. Here's a screenshot from OS X from a while back: https://i2.wp.com/512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/10-1-Puma-Command-T

Oh, what pretentious bullshit. Here's a screenshot from OS X from a while back: https://i2.wp.com/512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/10-1-Puma-Command-Tab.png https://i2.wp.com/512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1... Looks amateur and dated right? The thing is, 15 years ago people like you shat all over linux because it didn't look shiny and pretty like OS X. 15 years ago that OS X screenshot was the pinnacle of elegance and polish. If your UI didn't look like that, you were amateur and dated and janky. What Linux desktops needed was shiny buttons and genie effects to be taken seriously. Now that there are a bunch of perfectly usable linux desktops you need to move the goalposts again because it doesn't meet "common user standards". Meanwhile, you could put a "common user" in front of OS X 10.1 or windows XP and they would get along just fine, just like they did 15 years ago.

slededit 8y ago
That UI fit with the whole experience of the Macintosh of the time. Notice the fuzziness - the low res CRTs were all fuzzy at the time the UI played into it. The crazy colours perfectly fit the branding of the machine it ran on. Note that there was no subpixel spacing in the era of CRTs. The top menu bar is clearly too short to hold its contents but hey even Apple makes mistakes. 10.1 and even the late and great 10.6 were products of their time. The world has moved on, and Linux does not handle itself well in an era of 4K high DPI monitors.