[szszrk]

Future comes in at point were we actually circle back. "Black is always in fashion" kind of thing.

Ditch modern ad endpoints (a.k.a. operating systems) and go back to those distros we used 20 years ago. Accept that those don't support DRM, carefully choose our hardware (as its barely supported), and stick to it until it dies.

The thing i miss most from that time is Window Maker. I'd love to have again those tiny tiles with small graphs and buttons, but for more modern use cases.

[wizzwizz4]

Window Maker still exists. There's an ongoing Wayland port / reimagining: https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker.

[szszrk]

That's actually amazing. Can't wait for dockable apps support. That could be a killer app for operators - half desktop, half monitoring dashboard, haha :) I can already see those dockable tiles with Prometheus metrics.

[rbanffy]

The thing I liked most in the NeXT was the sparing use of color. It was part necessity, but also usability. What does the color of the window bar being blue communicate?

I am an enthusiast for Gnome’s less is more approach.

[ahoka]

Original NeXT was monochrome, so of course it used no significant colors in the UI.

[teddyh]

The original NeXTcube was 4-bit grayscale, but there was a graphics card available which supported 24-bit colour. The later NeXTstations supported 12-bit colours without any additional hardware.

[rbanffy]

> was 4-bit grayscale

Small nitpick: it was 2-bit and could do two greys in addition to black and white.

[teddyh]

Thank you. I actually knew that; I was thinking “4 shades”, and then wrote “4-bit” by mistake.

[lelanthran]

> The thing i miss most from that time is Window Maker.

I use WindowMaker as a daily driver. Still.