Re: what was nice about Win2k UI
Computer Nerd Kev <[email protected]>
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 Jun 2026 03:33:23 GMT, Retrograde wrote: >> Just a series of observations about how much better graphical user >> interfaces were back in the '90s and early 2000s. > > They haven't gone away. The *nix platforms (Linux, BSD) still offer a > choice of GUIs from that era, and even earlier. They can do that > because the GUI is not inextricably bound into the OS kernel. The start menu and taskbar was part of explorer.exe back then and could be replaced with alternatives (I don't know about in modern Windows). -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#