If you had never seen Windows/Mac OS/Linux/etc, and designed an operating system, what would it look like?

[BillGates]

I have no clue what I would do as far as design, layout, features, etc as it's hard to envision it after knowing what's already out there.

PICS are encouraged!

 

[Vortex22]

It's impossible to say, since I've already seen the current operating systems.

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: Vortex22
It's impossible to say, since I've already seen the current operating systems.

 

[Evadman]

I would just steal WinXP and call it "Evadows".

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: Evadman
I would just steal WinXP and call it "Evadows".

Bwahahaha

 

[BillGates]

Mine would look like this.. PLUS it has all the performance of a modern Apple computer at a fraction of the cost.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

If you had never seen Windows/Mac OS/Linux/etc, and designed an operating system, what would it look like?

A BIOS screen, cause I can't program for fuk.

 

[Kadarin]

I think to be more correct, you should be talking about designing a shell and a file manager, rather than an entire OS. In Windows you're limited on both counts, but it's possible to replace your shell with a different one that looks and acts completely different (LiteStep and Aston Shell are two examples). Ontrack used to make a replacement file manager for Explorer, but I don't believe it's available any longer. (Isn't Microsoft retarded? The shell, the file manager, and the web browser are all entirely different things, but are confusingly called "Explorer"..)

In Linux, there is no one particular "look", and there is a hell of a lot more customizability than there is in Windows.