I always hated CDE. It was so muted. HP VUE was super fruity loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment#/media/File:HP-UX-9-VUE.png https://en.

I always hated CDE. It was so muted. HP VUE was super fruity loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment#/media/File:HP-UX-9-VUE.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment#/media... Also, HP used mostly sans-serif font and CDE the (in my view) more boring serif ones. It was really like the IBM business suits had screwed it all up. Unfortunately HP refused to support VUE any longer. I still have it here though on a HP-UX 10.20 machine. Sun was good at design of their machines (much better than HP) but not the UI in my opinion, their java desktop was also super ugly. Of course tastes differ :) So your mileage may vary.