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Replacment Gui for 7

I have to give M$ a little credit and say that the W7 interface definitely makes some changes to XP that were sorely needed (a useful task bar is on top of that list), but there's so much useless eye candy in it that it still makes me so glad that my primary OS is Mac OS X.
 
Scotch77 said:
My main point is, from a users standpoint the gui is just not well designed. It is a over the top failure of all modern understanding of gui development. I could go ona nd on of why it is a shitty gui, but I wont. Simplicity and speed is what makes a gui work well, Aero simply does not have that. Gnome, Aqua, XFCE and Luna do. Aero is incredibly sloppy, and its version of Explorer simply sucks. It makes users confused, puts a lot more stress on IT. I know ive seen it first hand with vista.

My team and I manage a few thousand workstations, our number one complaint is on the start menu. We started to move some users to OSX and they all love it, we see about a 80% drop in non technical IT requests. Users just seem to understand Aqua because it is easy to use, it assumes a idiot user, and is designed properly. Gnome is moving in that direction, and its a good one to move in.
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From a "users standpoint"? Uh, I'm a user and I think it's designed well. First you're blabbing about how slow it is compared to other GUI's, and out of nowhere the explorer suddenly sucks. I'd ask what your goal is here - but I'm pretty sure we all know what the answer is to that question. How is Aero "sloppy" and "slow"? Please explain those things to me.

Regular users aren't "confused" by the damned GUI. For most users, it's "click the icon to open, click the x to close." Simple as that. How is the start menu bad? You go to it and open up programs from it. Or you can just type the name of a document or program and bam, it finds it for you. How is that complicated or hard to understand?

Oh, and again, what's this "top of the line" hardware you're using that causes Aero to be sooooo slow?" Answer nao plz kthx.
 
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I'm a pretty big Linux advocate for some reason. Currently as I type this I am running win7x64 on my ghetto laptop (celeron single core, GMA4500, 2 gig mem) the $329 deal form best buy a couple of months ago. Win7 is downright snappy on this piece of shit, where as 9.04 is at best adequate in comparison. I have found win7 to need jack shit for resources to give a decent experience, and I even have all the aero shit turned on. I'm no MS fanboy, but I think they knocked it out of the park with win7.
 
Scotch77 said:
...Simplicity and speed is what makes a gui work well, Aero simply does not have that. Gnome...
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As someone who has installed, configured, and/or used the Gnome Desktop Manager (oh and BTW, comparing Gnome to Aero is like comparing apples and oranges. Maybe you meant Metacity or Compiz to Aero, or Gnome to Windows Explorer) on several distros ranging from Ubuntu to Slackware I wouldn't say that it's speedy or simple. Though, I would agree with you on XFCE or Blackbox or Fluxbox or hell, Tom's Window Manager; Gnome's the last example I would use for claims of speed and simplicity.
 
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