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SGI IRIX Installation Tools & Overlays 2004 February - Disc 2.iso / dist / ViewKit_eoe_6523m.idb IRIX Installation Tools & Overlays 2004 February I still think there’s life in the old Unix beast yet, and this from someone who’s no fan of X11.IRIX Installation Tools & Overlays 2004 February home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search I remember gazing in wonder at screenshots on the web when all I’d was using was Macintosh Sysyem 7.

PS – The homogeniety of the Win look and feel really irks me.

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Linux being able to be differentiated from Windows is a good thing. Some bright spark would do well to produce an original and consistent GUI for Linux. Pointing and clicking is pointing and clicking on any platform – Linux doesn’t need to look like Windows.

It matters not a jot what people are used to. Now it would seem that the same sort of people are rejecting the allegedly ugly IM desktop, which (in it’s genuine IRIX version at least) is realtively lightweight in favour of KDE and GNOME which have more techno blubber than a sperm whale. Oftentimes Linux users are saying, “I want an ugly OS.” (Usually because they’re fast.)

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Whether one personally likes, for example, the Mac OS / Mac OS X UI what I cannot understand is that so many people claiming to be Linux ‘power users’ criticise Apple’s OSes for being pointless eye candy.Īpart from misunderstanding the importance of a graceful, intuitive and aesthetically pleasing UI it’s missing the point.

I am not in a position to comment on the ‘feel’ of Windows. Recent changes to the ‘look’ of the UI amount to little more than cosmetics. From both an aesthetic and a usability perspective Windows has more holes than a swiss cheese, or more properly, it is inconsistent and ugly. The fact that people are used to Windows isn’t the point.

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