[scandox]

I don't know when it happened but at some point I just fell completely out of love with the whole concept of a graphical interface. I think around Windows 2000 (Server) I remember thinking: "this is quite nice", but since then nothing.

I ought to at least feel some nostalgia around all these interfaces, but actually I don't. I just feel like, why on earth did I think Windows 95 was a good thing? Why didn't I see what a huge step backwards it was - at least for a user like me. The beginning of moving away from understanding the machine I was using.

I know too, the Terminal+Browser existence I have now is far from perfect, but I just feel liberated to know I don't need to spend most of my computing time navigating visually - it just doesn't suit me at all. I think the only interface now I feel as negatively about as the Windows-style interface is maybe the filesystem. Not for any rational reason I can explain - I feel like there's something wrong with our whole way of thinking about that. But I'm like a rat in a maze and can't imagine what outside of the maze might look like.

[aembleton]

Looking back at Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3.0.3 brings back some warm memories for me http://toastytech.com/guis/mkde.html

[reitanqild]

Loved Mandrake Linux :-)

It wasn't perfect but it was amazing I think.

[derefr]

How do you feel about Plan 9's acme editor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M)? It's a "GUI", but from a very different branch of thinking than the ones we have right now.

[sturakov]

What about a node based file system? Where you have pieces connected to each other with relationships, instead of trees flowing outwards?