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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces by Suppafly on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @01:09PM (#43764266)
>NeXTSTEP was widely regarded as visually striking and innovative for its time

Widely? You seem like the only one carrying the water for nextstep. I'm sure they had some advances but overall it's a very ugly UI.

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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces by breadwinner on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @02:37PM (#43764994)
It inspired Win95. It inspired the original Netscape browser's UI (toolbar etc is very NeXTSTEP-inspired, not surprising because it was developed on a NeXT box). It inspired the Mac OS X and the iPhone, although both have degraded since then. As things exist today, NeXTSTEP from 40 years ago (!) looks much nicer - and way more usable - than today's flat UIs.
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Re:SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces by Suppafly on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @12:02AM (#43768512)
Being the inspiration for a bunch of better products don't mean that it was inherently good itself.
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