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The visual design is just so bad. Its so ugly and souless. I actually feel bad for the UI designer that had to put their name behind that.

junofan 8mo ago
Looks great. Hope the team polishes it up before release. The visual nits in shipping Google products make my eyes bleed.
WarmWash 8mo ago
Unfortunately, it's just generally true that when a bunch of engineers complain about your UI, it probably will be well received by regular people.
tty456 8mo ago
What would you want to see different from this? is there an OS that actually looks good?
- carlosjobim 8mo ago
  MacOS up until Catalina Windows 7 with the Shine 2.0 theme Gnome Adwaita QNX Photon 6 BeOS R5 I'm sure there's more good examples. People here will say Windows 2000, but I don't think it has any grace.
- AuthAuth 8mo ago
  I'm not a visual designer but heres what I think is making it look so bad. The task bar is way to thick. The flat design of the icons needs some shadows or something to make them pop a bit. The rounding on the corners is way to much and needes to be dialed back significantly. There is both a top bar and a bottom bar, pick one ffs dont waste screenspace with both. Also top bar is transparent while bottom is fat and grey. I'd keep the top bar and scrap the bottom. As far as OS's that look good, #1 KDE Plasma with breeze, MacOS snow leopard, Windows xp and vista.
- spartanatreyu 8mo ago
  Right off the bat: 1. Those loading spinners being bumpy pulled my eyes around the screen wildly to the point that they were experiencing pain. They need to be removed. 2. There is a status bar along the top, and an application launcher docked at the bottom. That's way too much vertical space being used, especially on laptops (which I'd wager is going to be the most used viewing modality for this OS). It should be merged into a single bar along one side of the screen. 3. The dropdown at the top left of each window seems to be taking up a lot of space. Especially when you're trying to fit four tabs on the screen. Get rid of it so the tabs can actually be read. 4. At 27 seconds in, there are two close icons in the focused window. That being bad could be a presentation all in itself. 5. Random padding in the status bar.
- mh2266 8mo ago
  Mac OS X Snow Leopard, GOAT
- wackget 8mo ago
  For desktop use? Windows XP. It's got the right balance of aesthetics and practicality. Windows ME also works, but is more utilitarian. Anything after 7 is just absolute garbage.
  - dartharva 8mo ago
    What aesthetics/practicality does Windows 10 lose against Windows XP or 7?
- monegator 8mo ago
  Unironically: win 10, or kde plasma - breeze dark.

junofan 8mo ago

Looks great. Hope the team polishes it up before release. The visual nits in shipping Google products make my eyes bleed.

WarmWash 8mo ago

Unfortunately, it's just generally true that when a bunch of engineers complain about your UI, it probably will be well received by regular people.

tty456 8mo ago

What would you want to see different from this? is there an OS that actually looks good?

carlosjobim 8mo ago
MacOS up until Catalina Windows 7 with the Shine 2.0 theme Gnome Adwaita QNX Photon 6 BeOS R5 I'm sure there's more good examples. People here will say Windows 2000, but I don't think it has any grace.
AuthAuth 8mo ago
I'm not a visual designer but heres what I think is making it look so bad. The task bar is way to thick. The flat design of the icons needs some shadows or something to make them pop a bit. The rounding on the corners is way to much and needes to be dialed back significantly. There is both a top bar and a bottom bar, pick one ffs dont waste screenspace with both. Also top bar is transparent while bottom is fat and grey. I'd keep the top bar and scrap the bottom. As far as OS's that look good, #1 KDE Plasma with breeze, MacOS snow leopard, Windows xp and vista.
spartanatreyu 8mo ago
Right off the bat: 1. Those loading spinners being bumpy pulled my eyes around the screen wildly to the point that they were experiencing pain. They need to be removed. 2. There is a status bar along the top, and an application launcher docked at the bottom. That's way too much vertical space being used, especially on laptops (which I'd wager is going to be the most used viewing modality for this OS). It should be merged into a single bar along one side of the screen. 3. The dropdown at the top left of each window seems to be taking up a lot of space. Especially when you're trying to fit four tabs on the screen. Get rid of it so the tabs can actually be read. 4. At 27 seconds in, there are two close icons in the focused window. That being bad could be a presentation all in itself. 5. Random padding in the status bar.
mh2266 8mo ago
Mac OS X Snow Leopard, GOAT
wackget 8mo ago
For desktop use? Windows XP. It's got the right balance of aesthetics and practicality. Windows ME also works, but is more utilitarian. Anything after 7 is just absolute garbage.
- dartharva 8mo ago
  What aesthetics/practicality does Windows 10 lose against Windows XP or 7?
monegator 8mo ago
Unironically: win 10, or kde plasma - breeze dark.