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You and me both. With the exception of not having a real desktop, as that was popularized by the Mac (and later beautifully copied by Win9x), 3.x is favourite W
by drooopy 4y ago
You and me both. With the exception of not having a real desktop, as that was popularized by the Mac (and later beautifully copied by Win9x), 3.x is favourite Windows UI by a long shot. It's just so clean, and professional looking. And it just screams "productivity" to me, for some reason.
- asveikau 4y agoI realize it's not a consumer friendly experience, but typically when I set up a Linux or BSD machine, I don't bother with a desktop. Just a window manager. Sometimes a menu to launch stuff, but not always that even; sometimes xterm is enough. I'm not big on visual file management. I do most of that through the command line.
- Lammy 4y ago> And it just screams "productivity" to me, for some reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
- breakingcups 4y agoOh wow, I had no idea about this! So many of the productivity decisions that I credited to Windows way predate that.
- jug 4y agoI think it was very precise in its squareness (still unbeatable in joining and matching elements together with no gaps etc), and also well thought out in being keyboard navigable both iteratively via Tab and by shortcut keys through underlined letters (mnemonics). It also strictly followed the guideline saying that anything that would cause subsequent user interaction (like a file dialog) was indicated with “…” as in “Save” vs “Save as…” No idea how much of this began in Windows but Windows 3.1 was an OS that had it all and it was very strictly followed in a coherent interface. Sure, I liked the Windows 9x/NT/2K UI too but 3.x was special to me for being early to be so complete in terms of usability.