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Windows 95/2000 was as close to the perfect UI look & feel as we've ever gotten. No crazy eye candy, good contrast, easily recognizable and consistent UI compon
by kstenerud 6y ago
Windows 95/2000 was as close to the perfect UI look & feel as we've ever gotten. No crazy eye candy, good contrast, easily recognizable and consistent UI components, decent amount of information available on the desktop, and an overall UI that just gets out of your way. MacOS and AmigaOS came close, but they had more warts overall.
The only thing Windows did poorly (besides stability) was the amount of drilling down you needed to do to access some parts of the 80% use cases, but that can be fixed easily enough.
Today I use Mate desktop with the Redmond tweak, because once again it gives good feature coverage, good screen real-estate, low overhead, and generally gets out of your way.