How would you build an operating system? (SerenityOS with Andreas Kling)

Re:How would you build an operating system? (SerenityOS with... by dhruvrajvanshi on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:03PM (#39291878)

> Could you remember any substantial UI improvements between Win 95 and Win 11

Yes I can. Most OSes these days have a OS level fuzzy searching functionality. This has been my preferred way of launching applications on Windows (Win key), Linux (Win key) and MacOS (CMD+Spc).

I press a hotkey, type the first few characters of the program I'm trying to go to, and press enter. This is also common in text editors and even some web apps. Improves the UX of discovering commands, as compared to endlessly nested menus like the 90s.

There's loads of other things that have improved but this one is just so basic that I couldn't live without it.

Let's not live with rose tinted glasses. Yes, there's backsliding in terms of UX but don't ignore the improvements.

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Re:How would you build an operating system? (SerenityOS with... by throwaway17_17 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:28PM (#39292241)

I also tend to use Win key search for launching programs. I would be interested to see if an OS could focus that use case as a primary means of UI. If it did become central to usage, I’d love to see a commonality emerge across terminal centric and GUI OS styles.

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Re:How would you build an operating system? (SerenityOS with... by vilunov on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:19AM (#39301074)

I'm not living with rose tinted glasses, I mentioned search and UAC in my original message. This is not enough to warrant criticism of Win 95 clones. I bet you could add search to Serenity without changing the look and it would still be called a Win 95 clone.

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