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

Debian Trixie

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

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.

It's got what shareholders crave

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).

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

The exact same trends go round and round in web design too (and now apps).

At first things were square (because that was all the technology could do) then in the 2000s CSS exploded and everything went colour gradients and rounded corners, just because people could, then that became old-hat and everything went flat and square again, and then rounded came back (but without so many gradients)

Everything is cyclical.

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

Yeah and odd they don’t see the fundamental difference between these, Apple was always “glass widgets on/in a solid rectangle”

Only on Windows were windows windows

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

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. 😅)

There was the unreleased Windows “Blackcomb”, basically prior to Redmond seeing Apple’s Aqua, which was like a bit Windows 2000, a bit ME, flatness, outlines, square corners, and it could’ve been metro.

But resolutions and anti-aliasing were getting (slightly) better, so copy Apple, XP instead gets texture and rounds everything.

Vista was another interesting take, especially weird was the window controls. We are still living with those weird long controls with a margin below, but not above them, a lot of the time, even in flat land Windows 11.

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

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).