So, what UI style is/was the best? 80s, early/late 90s, early/late

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Longhorn and Whistler had great themes.

I am a flat design advocate (if it's well engineered at least) but somehow xp still gives me the fuzzies

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>>55230304

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This is one of the flat themes that don't look like shit

Atleast the button from early 90's looks like a fucking button

>>55230356
Is that some Windows Neptune?

>>55230280
I'm gonna have to go with this. If we're going by default themes in terms of default style, I'd say Ubuntu takes the win. It's not one of those totally flat tablet looking styles, but it's also not all plastic bubbles. Does well with color too.

>>55230376
Whistler (XP alpha)
Neptune is basically windows 2000 with a new login page

>>55230280
95/98/2000, XP, and Vista/7 all look the best in this lineup imo.

>>55230384
>>55230384
>'m gonna have to go with this


with what, you mong

>>55230335
transparency is fucking stupid

>>55230415
Meant to quote >>55230304

>>55230280
IMHO flat and edgy is the best,
glossy, rounded corners, mulicolored shadows was just to show off new gpu or software features, form and aesthetics follows function

>>55230606
except that the Windows 95-style button (which is 3d-looking with shadows) is less resource-intensive than the metro Windows 10 button.

XP is the shit

>>55230720
Who needs to care about resources in 2016?