Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

Invisible scroll bars are a source of constant annoyance. And it sometimes takes me several attempts to move a window, because of all the various clickable things without visible boundaries. Frustrating.

Latter NeXTStep feels like the peak of computing UI aesthetic. Maybe the abstractions and metaphors have improved a bit (I do think modern drag-and-drop icon-based file managers are probably an improvement), but everything interactable and non-interactable in those interfaces is crystal clear and unambiguous. Some of the themes I've seen around the Internet are spot-on perfect. Why did Linux so thoroughly abandon that look? Almost everything that works on Linux theme sites is...flat. FLAT. It's ALL FLAT.

Ah, A/UX! As a boy I wanted nothing more than to install it on my dad's computer — but of course back then it cost tremendous amounts of money, and it may not have been compatible with the software he wanted to run. Also, is it just me or were BeOS & Macintosh Systems 7 & 8 the high point of colour GUIs? I've never seen anything since which looks as nice.