• slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    144·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • realitista@lemm.ee
    62·
    9 days ago

    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.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      9 days ago

      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.

      • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        9 days ago

        Color gradients weren’t a feature in CSS for a long time, people still wanted them and made them using images, same with rounded corners, same with shadows. All this was standardised in CSS in the 2010s.

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
    49·
    10 days ago

    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)

      • Psythik@lemm.ee
        62·
        10 days ago

        I like Windows 11. It’s the only OS currently in existence to actually implement HDR properly, and that’s just sad.

          • Psythik@lemm.ee
            1·
            9 days ago

            I’m sorry you had issues. Win11 runs everything flawlessly for me. Not only that, every complaint I had about the OS was fixed by installing these two apps: StartAllBack and O&O Shut Up 10.

            I’ll completely switch to Linux once it not only gets proper HDR support, but also better support for DAW and DJ hardware. Until then I’m stuck dual booting Arch, like I have been with the Latest Windows version—and whatever contemporary Linux distro is in vogue—since the 90s. Some things never change.

  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
    421·
    10 days ago

    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).

  • Sheridan@lemmy.world
    English
    211·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      102·
      10 days 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.

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      Hell yeah I love that shit. Gimme unnecessarily textured UIs, frosted glass effects and all the skeuomorphisms you can manage.

    • miguel@fedia.io
      41·
      10 days ago

      I am definitely older (my first programming job involved a mac plus) and personally, I can’t stand the flat look era.

      • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
        2·
        9 days ago

        It would be fine if it had more ways to differentiate elements from each other - darkening around the edges of windows, buttons that actually look raised so they aren’t identical to a text box, scroll bars that aren’t SO FUCKING TINY that it’s clear MS is embarrassed that they exist in the first place, etc. etc.

    • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      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.

  • XM34@feddit.orgEnglish
    132·
    9 days ago

    Necessary “BTW, I’m using arch linux” comment coming through!

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    82·
    9 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…

  • srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

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