It's fun that people are so different. I would give a lot if I could have BeOS Tracker, Deskbar and GUI fitted into, for example, a Linux system instead of Gnom

It's fun that people are so different. I would give a lot if I could have BeOS Tracker, Deskbar and GUI fitted into, for example, a Linux system instead of Gnome. BeOS GUI was minimal, slick, and one of the rare GUIs that you can actually use for system maintenance. That's a tipping point for me: Linux desktops GUIs are there because a desktop computer apparently has to have a desktop GUI. In BeOS, it was there so that you could operate your system. Using a shell on Linux is the equivalent of the "Start" button; using a shell on BeOS always felt like a hack: you didn't need it for system control.