Best looking OS?

[coolred]

I know an OS should be about more then eye candy, but hey some of us like the eye candy. So whats some great looking OS's? Mac, Windows, linux whatever.

 

[Noema]

I like OSX's clean, stylish looks, though after using it for a while, I start finding all that grey and silver a bit drab.

Vista is quite sexy, with Areo and all. I think I prefer its looks to Mac OSX's.

XP's default Fisher-Priceish Luna was never my cup of tea, but it can be made to look quite nice if you tinker enough with it.

On the Linux side of things, both KDE and Gnome look great.

But, at the end of the day, Windows 1.0 will always be the fairest of them all, in my heart.

 

[Aberforth]

DOS, Mac, Vista - in that order

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
DOS, Mac, Vista - in that order

Lol, alright, I will keep DOS on my short list

 

[Aberforth]

DOS has a bit of hollywood hacker style

 

[almach1]

vista Aero doesn't count since for me, since i can't enable it without getting choppy video in Media Center windowed version.

 

[coolred]

Originally posted by: almach1
vista Aero doesn't count since for me, since i can't enable it without getting choppy video in Media Center windowed version.

Yeah that would suck, and from what I have heard so far, vista doesn't really offer much you couldn't already add to XP or get in another OS, so not really worth the cost.

 

[Nothinman]

A little flash isn't bad, but if it's over done it just gets in the way of actually using the thing. I've tried using Gnome and KDE a few times but I keep coming back to E16 for it's simplicity and speed.

 

[Brazen]

"looking pretty" has always been the Mac's domain. Most of the niftiest eye candy in other OSes started in the Mac, and has generally been poorly copied in Vista (so I've heard, never used Vista myself).

On the linux side, I'm always hearing Enlightenment is the bomb (e16 or e17-beta), but I've never been impressed with it, and Gnome can be skinned to look pretty much just like Mac with most of the Mac eye candy. Personally though, I just like the default Gnome look - I've never cared much for eye-candy.

 

[Piuc2020]

Vista is very nice looking but I think I'll have to give the crown to OSX as far as looks go.

Though both are very aesthetically pleasing and Vista does no longer look cheap or outdated.

 

[Nothinman]

On the linux side, I'm always hearing Enlightenment is the bomb (e16 or e17-beta), but I've never been impressed with it,

Little things like the multiple desktop thumbnails and being able to drag windows between those thumbnails are awesome. E16 used to be the eye-candy WM back in the late 90s but now it's one of the lightweight ones because there's been no new features added since then. =)

E17 is a lot heavier than E16, I tried it a few months ago and couldn't get used to it and it still had some annoying bugs.

 

[ProviaFan]

Mac OS X: Looks good without being "over the top"; Expose animates fluidly and is very useful
Windows Vista: It's not Mac OS X, but making claims of "better" or "worse" would be to compare apples and... </self flagellation for horrible pun> Flip3D also has a cool animation, but is slower and no more useful than Alt-Tab; MS should have just copied Apple instead of trying to "think different" and screwing it up.
KDE or Gnome with XGL: Very ostentatious animations that show off the technology but are mostly useless. At least they got the implementation of the "show all windows" aka Expose function mostly right, except that the animation can't approach Apple's for smoothness and speed of execution.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Aberforth
DOS has a bit of hollywood hacker style

Hollywood Hacker style would be big block letters that say "Downloading Personality to Neural Network."

DOS was very cool in 1985.

 

[IamDavid]

Ubuntu with Beryl beats everything hands down.. And you don't need a power house to use.

 

[Looney]

I'll say it's a very close race with Vista and Kubuntu with Beryl atm.

OSX isn't even in the race anymore imo, even though i still like the OSX default look (probably because i'm only using it about 20% of the time). There are other things about OSX i like that make the OS far better imo (like programs are packaged in little images rather than a long list of folders, files, DLLs, registry crap, etc).

 

[Schadenfroh]

Windows 2000

 

[FrustratedUser]

Apple OS 7.5

 

[Brazen]

Microsoft Bob

 

[cockeyed]

Originally posted by: Brazen
Microsoft Bob

LOL, forgot all about that one. A real classic!

I think Vista is purdy!

 

[Sunner]

Well, bringing Linux up is kinda useless since there are so many environments, themes, etc etc, it's too customizable to be compared to the others
I've always liked OS X's look though, not horribly overdone, stylish, and all around nice.
I only used Vista for a brief while, can't say Aero Glass did it for me really, looks a bit too toyish.