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Nostalgia? Metro, Unity and Gnome 3 are nightmares (Score:4, Informative)
GNOME 2.32.0
Using it right now. Call me old fashioned, but I like a GUI that you can actually use, and even customize.
GEM (Score:5, Informative)
The one on the Atari ST, not the crippled one sold to PC owners when Digital Research lost to Apple in court.
DOSSHELL.EXE (Score:5, Informative)
Does DOSSHELL count as a GUI? If so, that was the first one that I ever used, back when I had my first computer and was still learning the command line via trial and error. The computer was a 386 (DX, not SX!) and had a Turbo button that bumped it up from 16MHz to a blistering 25MHz. As far as I can tell, the only point of said button was to slow down old games so that they wouldn't run so fast that you couldn't see them. (Yes, the speed that a lot of games ran at depended on how fast your computer was.) Ah, those were the days.
Re:RISC OS (Score:4, Informative)
You beat me to it, although an 80's kid (such as me) would mostly be using BBC Model Bs and Master 128s which didn't really have a GUI (until the Compact). Archimedes was only launched in 87 and took a while to get into the schools. I was hacking on them between school and university (87-88) and wrote my first few papers on my trusty A310, before "upgrading" to an evil Elonex PC with a 33Mhz 486. For the love of god, why did I do that?
Re:Window Maker (Score:4, Informative)
Re:LCARS (Score:3, Informative)
Well, you can't make an LCARS interface commercially because it is copyrighted by Paramount. DMCAs have been used to take down apps that look like one at all.
Re:LCARS (Score:4, Informative)
It doesn't have to be for sale to get taken down by a DMCA order, just available to the public. Anyone who's started working on one gets shut down, so nobody's ever finished anything decent.
As interfaces go though, it's very bulky - the menus and such take up far too much space on screen, meaning that though it's great for watching someone else using it on a TV screen, since you can see that they're doing stuff, it's not very efficient for actual use.
Re:RISC OS (Score:5, Informative)
Ah yes, those were the days...
It had (has) some fun features
Er... hang on... this is all sounding a bit like Mac OS... :-)
...to be fair, NeXTStep, a.k.a. Max OS IX 9.0 'Fluffy Kitten' was around at about the same time, RISC OS was Nothing like OSX/Unix under the hood, more like the BBC Micro OS on steroids with an API GUI that anybody who had programmed GEM would find strangely familiar...
Plus, you could write full-blown GUI apps in BBC Basic - and many did - although it couls be misleading because BBC BASIC could include ARM Assembler.
Also came bundled with a brilliant vector art package called !Draw.
Re:OS/2 (Score:3, Informative)
Compared with the available OSes which could do multitasking and still installable at home, it was one of the best OSes around at that time. It beat the pants of the Windows crowd easily. I used to run BBSes on OS/2, even when I was abusing the system running CAD software for my Uni work, my users could still download their files w/o a single CRC error. Windows couldn't even handle two users in one go comfortably. Desqview was the way to go for those but then you couldn't run the CAD stuff.