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I've been half joking lately that if I wrote an OS, I'd call it Nostalgia OS. I'd aim for a UI reminiscent of windows 98 / windows 2000 / snow leopard. With HID
by josephg 8mo ago
I've been half joking lately that if I wrote an OS, I'd call it Nostalgia OS. I'd aim for a UI reminiscent of windows 98 / windows 2000 / snow leopard. With HID guidelines and a rich, clear, cohesive set of UI widgets to build applications with. I think that was the peak computing user interface - at least as I experienced it.
Of course, the kernel would be based on capabilities (probably SeL4). And applications would probably ship as WASM bundles. And I'd have a built in local first user database built around CRDTs and things instead of a file system, kinda like a modern Lotus Notes. But for the UI? That era was great.
- HerbManic 8mo agoThis is sort of what SerenityOS was going for. Alas it has slowed down a bit since Andreas now handles the Ladybird browser. To be fair Ladybird is probably needed more urgently now.
- incanus77 8mo agoCheck out the Chicago95 theme for XFCE.
- jayde2767 8mo agoPTSD and my pining for OS/2 spikes once again...OMG...
- happymellon 8mo ago> windows 98 / windows 2000 / snow leopard I don't know if I would group those together. Windows 98/2k were visually similar, but OSX by that point was looking quite refined. It had toned down the blue, but still had some visual flare. 95/98/2k had a very utility appearance. Just compare the recycle bins between each to see how much more effort went into OSX look and feel.
- BoxOfRain 8mo agoMy favourite OSX in terms of visual design was the Panther/Tiger era personally. Leopard looked good, but there was something really cheerful and friendly about Tiger. The iPods of those days were also really well thought-out in my opinion. Definitely a world apart from the utilitarian Windows 98 UI.
- happymellon 8mo agoAnd personally I preferred the XP/Vista era, having search was so much better than not. However, that just shows how far behind Windows was. Spotlight was much better.
- rwmj 8mo agoTo some extent (not capabilities), Haiku fits the bill here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29). Applications are bundles (but not WASM of course). The UI is very clean. The whole OS is also elegant and very fast on modern hardware.
- qwertfisch 8mo agoYes because BeOS was way ahead of its time. A complete new OS, doing all system things so much more efficiently, that it could allow wasting cpu time on high level actions, like moving windows in real-time while they were playing videos. On 1993s hardware, impossible with Windows or OS/2.
- ip26 8mo agoDid you happen to be between 15-25 years old when ‘98 was released?
- tim-tday 8mo agoI fired up an old computer a few years ago. Mac OS 7.1 was snappy as hell. Maybe we should run old os, new computer for a while.