• the_crotch
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    3 days ago

    It was a stupid and unnecessary decision, yeah. That didn’t make it a bad OS though. It was a step up from windows 7 in almost every way other than a dumb aesthetic choice that people became hyper focused on.

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      3 days ago

      I still miss the windows 7 glass look. That was peak desktop layout. Everything you need, nothing you don’t.

      And then they threw all of that good design away for a relatively mid mobile showing.

      That didn’t make it a bad OS though

      Interface design is an incredibly important part of software development. The users weren’t wrong when they shunned windows 8, microsoft was wrong for shitting on 30 years of interface development.

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        3 days ago

        People who care that much about how their OS looks are going to spend hours customizing it anyway