https://devurandom.xyz/tags/user-interfaces/Recent content in User Interfaces on /dev/urandom's dev siteHugoen-USSat, 10 Jan 2026 01:00:22 +0300https://devurandom.xyz/tech/on_os_user_interfaces/Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devurandom.xyz/tech/on_os_user_interfaces/<p>A lot of the time, our preferences for what an OS user interface should look like come down, ultimately, to either nostalgia or past experiences. Someone gets annoyed at a UI change and their instinctive reaction is to assume that whatever &ldquo;the old way&rdquo; was, was inherently better.</p> <p>This especially applies to people who use Linux (or any of the BSDs, but for purposes of this page, I&rsquo;ll refer to any of the &ldquo;free desktops&rdquo; as Linux), since it is rarely ever their first operating system &ndash; usually they started off with either Windows or macOS, and picked up habits and assumptions from that.</p>