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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by dijit on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:13PM (#37266471)
Most linux desktop environments (notable exception of Gnome3 though it applies for Gnome2) seem to favour old school UX design which, incidentally, I happen to find nicer than “pretty”.

I personally really like the Adwaita icon sets much more than windows and at least on-par with MacOS, though MacOS has the advantage of being rendered only on extremely high DPI screens. So most people only have that experienfe

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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by jwells89 on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:40PM (#37266750)
For whatever it's worth, macOS/OS X has had very high resolution icons well before high DPI displays were commonly available. Even 10.0 which was released in 2001 supported 128x128 icons, which was 4x larger than what other popular desktops were capable of at the time and enabled far greater levels of detail, even if most users wouldn't be seeing that detail most of the time.
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Re:HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD by dijit on Saturday August 26, 2023 @03:42AM (#37270645)
Thats actually true with Adwaita also. :D
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