Nextspace – NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux

I imagine a world in which the F/OSS community chose to implement and innovate on GNUStep or some other OpenSTEP/NeXT/Cocoa compatible implementation. This project is exciting by way of providing a more complete nucleus of what that desktop might look like. The KDE/Gnome schism really divided the mindshare of the open *nix desktop. If we’d gone this route, I like to imagine the differences between Mac and Linux or BSD would be small enough that - Mac apps would be…

What is incredible here is that a UI developed in the 1980s is still attractive, and is arguably better looking and more usable than Windows 11 and Mac OS 12. What does that say about the last 40 years of usability and user experience research?

I have to admit I'm nostalgic for the straight forward nature of NS/WM and even some of the less powerful interfaces of the time. Most modern desktop environments including macOS feel like an exercise in evading landmines of unpredictable or inconsistent behavior. On macOS specifically the retrofitting of tabs into applications mostly designed to be SDI has (mixed with some legit SDI apps and full screen stuff) is a mess. Can anyone actually keep track of dozens of windows with…