Why were 2000's software so aesthetic?

people who designed it don't work at microsoft anymore

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Ugly shit

that train has really thick antennae

Dont dumb down software to smartphone users, Muh apps

i wish MS money still existed

Isn't Tesla "open source"?

Fuck, I miss Vista.

Can I do that with GNU/Linux?
I assume KDE probably has a similar effect, right?
I'm going t o switch soon™.

all the IP and electric motor tech is open source

Is there a way to get Windows 7 aero on Windows 10?

Wouldn't a food analogy make more sense? like the open source would be a human making it and you can see his recipe and the stuff he puts it and the closed source would just be a giant box that just shoots out burgers.

You would be right if what you are saying is true.

Whats a good alternative?

>Why were 2000's software so aesthetic?
The 90s saw the advent of GUIs in nearly everything but due to limited hardware capabilities most of GUIs where simple in color and design.
Come into the 2000s where most PCs could produce full color at a nice resolution and skeuomorphism came into full effect which most of the time meant making things look like they're made of glass

>due to limited hardware capabilities
*limited artistic abilities

And how do you explain the flat shit that came afterwards?

This. BeOS was aesthetic in the 1990s.

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Same thing happened to the web. The internet killed magazines, so all the shitty magazine "designers" got jobs in software and internet companies. You could see it clearly when Windows 8 came out. All the metro apps looked exactly like those vapid fashion magazines from the 90's. All columns of meaningless text interspersed with equally meaningless images.

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So was NeXTSTEP.

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Kino

it was pretty cringe
>Jow Forums, 2028: Why were 2010's software so aesthetic?

When you have to make a GUI for the lowest common denominator of PC hardware you might end up with something like Win95

IDK who started it but its been a cancer ever since

Mobile shit invading web design needing simple forms to see shit at low res.

>When you have to make a GUI for the lowest common denominator of PC hardware you might end up with something like Win95
True. Though 95 was a consistent design at least, which I can't say for Windows 10.

NeXTSTEP had the "chiseled grey widgets" look in 1988 and was subsequently copied by every competing graphical OS in the 90s.

Behold: 512pixels.net/projects/aqua-screenshot-library/

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by the time flat design became a meme (2012-14) phones already had higher resolution than most computers
you're actually almost right though. it was believed that textured design was in the 'uncanny valley' on high res screens and that we didn't really need that much contrast

IMO Aqua with the pinstripes is still the most elegently designed OS ever. The contrast between elements and the way the text pops is very nice.

Exactly this. Fuck the useless brain-dead shit-skins that have destroyed everything related to technology. These filthy subhuman cretins all need to hang.

this

>drive the virgin Tesla
>overpriced as fuck
>gay fashion accessory
>get locked inside the car remotely

>drive the chad GNU/Car
>vroom vroom shit goes 300mph in 5 seconds
>be chad neckbeard, don't care about how it looks
>gets you from point A to B just the same
>costs fucking nothing, made from scraps
>engine runs on any type of fuel, including 80+ proof liquor
>can't get locked inside because the door is plywood

Remember that girl in high school you really liked? I bang her every night on the hood of my GNU+Vehicle.

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SPINNAN CUEBS

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Muh it's flat so it requires "less resources" bullshit

Linux had the best UI.

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This is no aesthetic

>Be me
>Average cuck
>Driving gf's house to beg her to come back
>At stoplight
>Car coming up behind me
>Fuck it's chad
>See him driving some junker that not even the dump would take
>I recently got one of those Teslas with the ludicrous mode, pic related
>gameon.gif
>light turns green
>Hit the pedal
>Fuck yeah
>My posture is forced upright as my Tesla accelerates
>I begin laughing hysterically
>If only I played something while passing
>Look back at chad's car
>Waitwft.png
>No chad to be seen
>Where chad drove there is two tracks of fire burning away at the asphalt headed where chad had gone
>Buildings are on fire and people are screaming
>mfw Tesla is on fire
>mfw chad beat me to gf's house
>mfw got a speeding ticket and not chad
>mfw have to do community service for arson
>mfw the whole town thinks I set up some sort of bomb

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call me lame, but I enjoy imagining I can just reach out and touch or move the icons

Workbench 4 lyfe niggers

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Vista looked like ass

this 1000%

What the fuck are you talking about? Anything that isn't grey as its default color is fucking garbage.

Grey is not a color, user

Fuck, never thought of this but it makes complete sense. UI stopped being made by tech people who were focused on pulling the utmost performance out of the hardware, and began to be done through bloated libraries that were written to be used by stupid fashion designers. Fuuuuuuck.
Why do normans have to ruin everything?

4/10

His effort though buddy.

That was undoubtedly the intention. Aqua was designed to have a certain physicality to it, which is why the Apple's Aqua UI design guide went as far as to include things like where the system's "light source" was located (the menubar).

No joke, kinda miss that

Sudden desire to build a car.

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this is garbage, not good.