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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 6 days ago

Cool, I'm glad to see UI that makes tech look fun and hopeful again instead of barebones corporate-flat, spartan rectangles.

"Oo look, they come in muted pastels and you can round the corners!"

Pfftftfttft...

And it stills looks like shit. Idk, as much as I dislike Windows Vista asthetics, Apple managed to make them look good by comparison.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 159 points 1 week ago (16 children)

From day one of Windows 11, I wrote that Windows 11 felt like an unnecessary replacement for Windows 10. I’ve since changed my mind about that, in part because Microsoft has pivoted toward features like Windows Spotlight and adding AI capabilities like Copilot. MacOS Tahoe looks and feels somewhat like Windows Vista’s Aero Glass design language, but you can’t hold that against them—some of Microsoft’s early Windows efforts were fondly remembered for their UI.

Oh so he doesn't know what he is talking about. How has 11 gotten better with 'AI' or anything else.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago

Copilot is literally the last nail in the coffin for me to finally switch. 365 has been bad for some time now, with copilot it's basically unusable

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 130 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's got what shareholders crave

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago

From day 1 I’ve been critical of Windows 11, but since then I’ve been told our sponsors don’t like that, so here’s why I’m now all in on 11.

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

blood of slave labour children from the rare earth metal mines?

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago

Also, they don’t seem to remember that Mac OS X 10.2 used Aqua and glassmorphism in 2002 to match their iMac’ brand new translucent style 5 years before Windows Vista was released (2007).

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Also, everyone hated the UI in Vista at the time.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 22 points 1 week ago

I didn't mind it at all, but I had decent hardware, which apparently made all of the difference.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Who's "he", and where did that quote come from? I only see an image, did I miss an article cross-posted or something?

EDIT: Apparently, it's from PCWorld.

[–] lemsip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

"That's what"
She

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Well, hopefully their opinion changed from "unnecessary replacement" to "replacement with degraded performance and unnecessary malware."

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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

We've seen all the window border/ui design cycles by now. You can have:

  • Glassy
  • Metallic
  • Bubbly
  • Flat
  • Chiseled stone

They will just rotate every 7 years or so from here on out.

[–] NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ohhhhhhhhhh I get it! They called it Vista like a view, like something you would see out of a window (I am not very smart)

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And it's called Windows 11 to remind us of 9/11, because both are fucking tragedies.

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[–] QuincyPeck@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I’ve only just now made the connection because of your post.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Because people don’t seem to remember that Mac OS X 10.2 used Aqua and glassmorphism in 2002 to match their iMac’ brand new translucent style 5 years before Windows Vista was released (2007).

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People spreading these memes most likely weren’t born before either release 😀

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I've run into gen-z people talking very nostalgically about 2000s UI design trends. They've even retroactively dubbed the era as 'futiger aero'.

I'm a bit older and don't as fondly remember that era; I remember a lot of excesses like nonsensical reflections and calendar apps with leather textures. The 2013 turn to "flat" design felt quite fresh to me, and I haven't really gotten tired of it yet.

[–] TheRealKuni@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The 2013 turn to "flat" design felt quite fresh to me, and I haven't really gotten tired of it yet.

Man, I have. I liked it at first, but I’m so ready.

The processing power wasn’t there yet in 2007 for the level of refraction and skeuomorphism that makes this look work on a system-wide level. In Vista and 7 Aero was just fancy transparency with some blurring and flares. But this design language Apple is showing off is beautiful. I hope others copy it (which will probably happen, since everything in tech is everyone copying everyone else).

(That said, I would probably also take a return to the 9x/NT4/Windows 2000 2.5D grey UI over the flat stuff at this point, so maybe I’m not a good source of opinion. 😅)

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

(which will probably happen, since everything in tech is everyone copying ~~everyone else~~ Apple no matter how good or bad their ideas are at the time.)

FTFY although I wish it wasn't so. ._. Lol

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

If they are really nostalgic for that, tell them to use react os.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I miss the glass and translucent looks, the flat boring look of today is very bleak and dystopian looking imo. Don’t miss vista though, that was what started my move to Linux (with Compiz fusion and as many of the ridiculous effects as my poor $300 laptop could handle).

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

I feel the same way! I think a lot of hate for Vista was just instability and high system usage.

I feel like things have definitely come a long way, where my KDE machines can have pretty glassy UI without crunching the whole system.

I also really liked ME before XP, where there was a heavy emphasis on personalizing and theming.

flat boring look of today is very bleak and dystopian looking imo.

100%. It feels very corporate and like any artistic touch was forcibly extracted from it because trends say that aesthetic hurts readability or something. Blegh.

It's like the UI equivalent to that "Memphis techbro" art style with the freakish flat purple people with wonky arms and tiny heads.

[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I mean, I'm not entirely opposed to some translucency and gloss if it doesn't get in the way of legibility. For me early Mac OS X 'Aqua' circa 2003 is the peak of that aesthetic.

Any UI theme should also be applied consistently. What I hated about Vista is the Aero theme was only surface deep. You were always only a few clicks away from some program that look liked it hadn't been updated since Windows 95.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago

You were always only a few clicks away from some program that look liked it hadn't been updated since Windows 95.

That remains true for 10 and 11 too. For a quick trip back to 1995, just do something that you probably haven't done this millennium, change your mouse pointer. Instant nostalgia. Device manager in general hasn't changed much either.

I wouldn't even count that against them, working functionality shouldn't be changed without good reason, except that it exposes how much windows is a patch job on a fundamentally flawed design. If it were a boat or car, it would be more Bondo than metal at this point. Why are these dialogs so stuck in the past? Shouldn't it be a simple matter to have them use the latest design elements to at least look consistent, even if the functionality hasn't changed a bit.

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[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I got tired of it in 2013. While it does work in some places (Android does it reasonably well), I haven't yet seen a good flat design on the desktop.

Windows 8 and 10 looked garish and hard to read, especially since everything is a rectangle with a one-pixel outline. Is it a button? Is it a text field? Maybe a thick progress bar? Who knows, they all look extremely similar.

While Apple did overdo it in the later big-cat OS X releases, I'll take a felt-textured widget panel and a calendar bound in leather over an endless sea of hairline rectangles.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago
[–] XM34@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Necessary "BTW, I'm using arch linux" comment coming through!

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Make way kid, I'm on my Gentoo flying through

[–] Jaybird@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Debian Trixie

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