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Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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567 points elvis70 | 1 comments | 30 Mar 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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metadat ◴[30 Mar 25 16:14 UTC] No.43525239[source]▶
This looks nice and easy to use.

My hypothesis is today's "modern" OS user interfaces are objectively worse from a usability perspective, obfuscating key functionality behind layers of confusing menus.

It reminds me of these "OS popularity since the 70s" time lapse views:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cTKhqtll5cQ

The dominance of Windows is crazy, even today, Mac desktops and laptops are comparatively niche

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voidfunc ◴[30 Mar 25 16:25 UTC] No.43525330[source]▶
I got in an argument with an accessibility engineer about this recently...

The whole UI as branding thing has utterly killed usability.

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Lorkki ◴[30 Mar 25 19:36 UTC] No.43526880[source]▶
It's also repeating what the hellscape of inconsistent skinned UIs did in the late 90s and early 2000s. People are looking back at those times with a rather selective memory.
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1. xandrius ◴[31 Mar 25 11:04 UTC] No.43533551{3}[source]▶
People forget having to use IE with 12 toolbars when going over at some friend's house.