There definitely are familiar elements and patterns, but it's. It was interesting to see how it evolved. Macs only started gaining popularity around the very end of 00s - probably not least because of the Intel transition and the ability to try out the OS as hackintosh.Īnyway. 'Insanely expensive beautifully made things, very good with colors and fonts, that professional designers sometimes use and most people can't afford'. Now, to set the context, I'm Russian, and back when classic Mac OS was current, Apple computers were generally stuff of legends. I recently ran Mac OS 9 on an emulator, out of curiosity, after having been using modern macOS/OS X/whatever you call it for the last 10 years. when it comes to developer tools and developer workflows, package management (winget.) - thank you Microsoft for that vision -, the 'classic way of using Windows' and the use of good UI to make the OS accessible to users of all PC user skill levels is being neglected to such a degree it's not even funny. While other parts and usage paradigms of the Windows computer are experiencing a boost and are being 'supported' right now, esp. I do not even have to rely on bad or outdated click UIs - although my employer recently sent me to a AWS course where the task was to configure a Windows Server based AD controller, and the experience involved admin GUIs from my worst nightmares - to do things like checking the current IP addresses, configuring and overriding DNS servers, or definining/scheduling custom background services anymore. On the other hand, what's changed massively is how easily Windows 10 can be used as a power user, single-user desktop computer from the shell through powershell. Putting all other things aside, the 'Windows shell' today is so much inferior to even latest GNOME and KDE iterations. It feels like a cramp to make something different but without any foundational insights how it could be better than past iterations on the UI nor with the budget and man power actually needed to pull the project together. I do not really understand how Microsoft could drop the ball that low on Windows 10 usability.

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