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This is really nice, thanks for sharing. Looking back, the obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows, was a remarkably good user interface. (Or, many people simply have a soft spot for it, because we used it for a very long time.)

I imagine Ede would play perfectly with Tiny Core Linux [1] which has FLTK/FLWM as its default desktop system.

1: http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

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If you like this style of UI, check out serenityOS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity).

They all look the same to me. Perhaps the devil is in the details, but visually, they all look like Windows, except the ones that look like MacOS.

The only system that doesn't look like either, that I can think of, is Plan 9.

Plan9 is certainly unique and opinionated. Nextstep/Openstep/WindowMaker and RiscOS are two others that come to mind.

Arguably BeOS/Haiku could count too. It’s less obvious later and with experience with Linux stacking WMs, but it was pretty obviously a different lineage at the time.

> obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows

Which was inspired by NextStep.

Thanks for the addition, apparently I'm too young to know this. Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_...

Windows is quite an explicit lift of the interface design guidelines specified by IBM as Common User Access ( CUA ).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

CUA predates NeXT by quite a lot and so the influence would mostly be going the other way.

CUA was the design paradigm chosen for OS/2, a joint project between IBM and Microsoft. When Microsoft started the Windows Project ( after OS/2 ) they pretty explicitly adopted CUA for it as well.

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