Microsoft planning ‘sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows’
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It was also very intuitive. Functionality could be found exactly where it was expected to be. And the UI elements were well-demarcated and sensible.
I felt so disappointed when I returned to Windows 10. So much of the Windows 10 experience is worse for me than that Windows 2000 experience was, especially the UI.
And it is really the same thing with Gnome, the Gnome 3 "improvements" were (and continues to be) a dumpster fire.
So forgive me if my enthusiasm of this message is slightly dampened.
Microsoft has abandoned most of their own principles (and they were good principles) of UI developed in those days, and now everything seems to be designed by a committee of schizophrenic art school dropouts.
The only thing, the _only_ thing I could ever possibly want is a return of the Classic view.
I harbor no hopes that either one of these things will happen.
Second idea: I want to store desktop icons in expandable groups much like how a smartphone does.
But I'm not confident I will like the changes they make, most people won't since most would just hope to go back to the look and feel of windows 7 or before.
That has not ever been my experience with Linux. I ran Linux on the desktop for a long time and I would never have made this claim.
Linux definitely is good, and it is superior to other operating systems in many ways, and saying that most things just work is a very myopic view, I think.
Fences by Stardock (https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/) does that, doesn't quite look like how a smartphone does but it is essentially the same.
Of course, you could just create folders on your desktop (or taskbar) for a not so great solution.
But yes, having Windows natively support that feature would be better.