A Look at Some Retro Desktop Graphical User Interfaces
rbanffy
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April 01, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (1 comments)
bjoli
I dont know why, but I have always been very fond of the BeOS ui. It was toony, but still said "this is where you come to get shit done". Tabbing windows together and quickly flipping between them with a simple keyboard shortcut was in many ways a lot better than what we have today. Multitasking on a smaller screen stinks (I am looking at you specifically, Gnome), but somehow BeOS made it work.