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> If there be anything that can ever steal the spotlight from Mac; it would be Haiku.

I looked at the Haiku slideshow and I'm not seeing this. It looks like an eye sore, desktop environments familiar of the 90s. Even early OSX is a massive improvement (as it was to the NeXT desktop).

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Don't get me wrong; Mac is light years ahead. What I mean is the level of harmony and design integrity the Haiku has. I doubt that any corporation can ever have even the team that used to make the icons of Tiger/Leopard era. The scrollbars of the Leopard or the whole Aqua. But given their team size and small scale of Haiku; this is one amazing job. The apps, the website, the icons; the documentations... all are in harmony and you don't find it anywhere else.

All of that has been straight copied from BeOS, which was a real corporation worth millions of dollars and in the cutting edge of technology at the time.

Very good point!

I agree, it's arguably clean, and definitely an improvement over Windows 98 era GUI, probably also XP era. But the world has moved on. Even KDE looks better today.

I honestly don't get this, what have we gotten since that's a considerable UI improvement? Bigger paddings? Flat UI?

IIRC you can even configure custom colors, have dark mode, etc. It might look dated with the gray color scheme but that's really the only thing I can guess would look dated to someone.

We are these days blessed with the gift of elegantly useless skinny scrollbars

> Even KDE looks better today.

:-o

I am honestly amazed.

IMHO KDE is fugly and it always has been.

One thing Haiku has is that it looks utterly coherent. Yeah, it looks 90s, but at least it looks like that everywhere you poke it. Every other OS out there became, in that regard, a mess.

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