[Info-vax] RMS intro

[Dan Cross]

In article <un9111$5lv4$3 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2024-01-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 1/3/2024 4:52 PM, John Dallman wrote:
>>> Me, I regarded Windows 2000 as the peak of their GUI design, and it's
>>> been getting worse, on average, ever since.
>>
>> Many have that feeling.
>>
>> Not quite so many if they actually go back.
>>
>> I had to recently do some work on XP. I was not impressed.
>>
>
>I looked at some articles with pictures of the Windows 2000 UI recently
>and nothing has changed my impression that it is still one hell of a lot
>more usable that the default Windows 10 UI.
>
>For example, which arrogant cretin thought it was OK to _force_ 1px
>borders on users in Windows 10 ? Those are not borders, those are piss-takes.
>
>Also, looking at those Windows 2000 UI pictures reminded me of how much
>more easier it was to navigate instead of those horrible flat low-contrast
>UI elements in Windows 10 where it's sometimes hard to even tell _what_
>is clickable.
>
>John is absolutely right about Windows 2000.

I'll confess, I never cared for the Windows GUI.  It was (and
is) too "busy" for my tastes, starting from the early days and
continuing to the present.

For years and years, twm with X11 was my preferred environment,
then Plan 9.  DECwindows was kind of cool, as a port of Motif to
VMS, but I rarely used it.

I vividly remember Dennis Ritchie demonstrating Plan 9 to me in
his office at Bell Labs one day.  A comment he made has always
stuck with me; it was something along the lines of text being a
body one could manipulate, distinct from the small glyphs that
were, in contrast, static and immutable, but that permeated most
user interfaces at the time.  THAT was a relevation.

Sadly, the world moved on.  Now we have the web.  Oh well.

	- Dan C.