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Your timeline is incorrect. Both Unity and GNOME 3 came out before Windows 8. I also dislike the trend, but I've moved on to tiling window managers after a few
by jorams 6y ago
Your timeline is incorrect. Both Unity and GNOME 3 came out before Windows 8.
I also dislike the trend, but I've moved on to tiling window managers after a few months on Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
- giancarlostoro 6y agoI was curious and sure enough Unity is from 2010, and came out with Ubuntu 10.10, whereas Windows 8 came out in 2012. Unity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface) Windows 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8 Edit: Looks like Zune had a metro based design in 2006 though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)#Histor... I never had a Zune so no idea if it had icons like that at all.