Microsoft to begin relling out slick new "Fluent Design" UI in the fall.

[shermantanker]

2 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

that's a shame  

I'm mostly happy with windows 10 minus some small annoyances here and there. I am eager to see what they have planned next.

[vorticalbox]

1 minute ago, shermantanker said:

I'm mostly happy with windows 10 minus some small annoyances here and there. I am eager to see what they have planned next.

me too. I've just got suck of the pushing updates, applications and the spying. 

 

I've had ubuntu installed for a few weeks now, I haven't needed to restart once after installing updates. 

[shermantanker]

1 hour ago, vorticalbox said:

me too. I've just got suck of the pushing updates, applications and the spying. 

 

I've had ubuntu installed for a few weeks now, I haven't needed to restart once after installing updates. 

Glad it's working out for you

[mrchow19910319]

17 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

that ad looks good, Microsoft finally started having decent ads while apple started having shitty attack ads. 

 

nice to see the new design, hopefully, they stick to it. 

 

 

 

[Doobeedoo]

Hmm not sure how it will end up. Though dark theme in Filed Explorer with tab option would be great, specially dark theme across the board.

Animations must not be slow and tiring, the info density should be proper and not everything scattered with potential multiple clicks to get to something and have wasted space.

[yian88]

On 5/11/2017 at 11:55 PM, LAwLz said:

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hehehe filthy MS normies will never understand this

Spoiler

 

i used to think win7 was good design untill i tried the real deal arch custom

anyway windows would be fine for what it is if it wasnt so bloated with crap and useless stuff that kills performance/resources like no other

[RedRound2]

On 5/12/2017 at 0:47 AM, Bwithnewcast said:

It is locking you down to have a Windows environment so you can't use linux or Apple.. Apple is doing the same f*cking thing...

 

Mac doesn't lock you down to anything. You can easily install windows or Linux. macOS supports third party add-on too. Don't make some uninformed fanboy claims here

[HelplmChoking]

I'm anticipating it being rushed, poorly thought out and over complicated, with parts of the system using the old styling and parts being duplicated, in typical Microsoft fashion.

[suicidalfranco]

those moments i wish Apple would just release MacOS for all to use, instead of limiting in what's now worthless hardware in my eyes 

[theDarkPotato]

On 5/12/2017 at 5:05 AM, shermantanker said:

I really like this new refined direction, and only hope that it is a full conversion in the end. With elements of windows 7/8 still baked into Win10, and DPI scaling issues still persisting in areas within windows this would be a welcome change.

 

The Verge

 

It does look better than metro. The flat colors of metro do suck

[Notional]

On 11/5/2017 at 10:55 PM, LAwLz said:

Whoever came up with this design for Explorer should get fired.

 

Wow, that looks great! I want my Windows to look like that! Is that how the next GUI will look for Windows 10?

 

The only thing I'm really missing in explorer, and the reason why I almost never use it, is the lack of double panes. I use Altap Salamander for my old school Norton Commander needs. I really wish I would just use Explorer. I mean how hard is it to support double panes?

[MilitantCro]

On 5/11/2017 at 9:59 PM, Syntaxvgm said:

maybe it will fix scaling

 

but

 

If I don't like it, I can be sure that MS will ram it up my butthole with no lube, and give no option to keep old UI and keep up to date. And I'm talking in the case of major usability changes not visual. 

It has already been confirmed you will be able to disable it in the settings.

[captain cactus]

God that's ugly. 

[jaggysnake57]

 

On 2017-5-11 at 11:12 PM, vorticalbox said:

both on these are on ubuntu. Nautilus has tabs and there is this https://launchpad.net/glipper.

 

[vorticalbox]

On ‎13‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 6:06 AM, Rangaman42 said:

I'm anticipating it being rushed, poorly thought out and over complicated, with parts of the system using the old styling and parts being duplicated, in typical Microsoft fashion.

Windows 10 still hasn't got all settings into the new UI, the old control panel that was in XP is still there. 

[Syntaxvgm]

6 hours ago, MilitantCro said:

It has already been confirmed you will be able to disable it in the settings.

initially. 

[Misanthrope]

"Material" and then at the end "Design" Real subtle MS. 

[linkboy]

MS needs to do something, so I'm (cautiously) supporting it.

 

Windows 10's UI is a mess.

[SSL]

It's funny, first we had aero with blurry translucent "glass" and drop-shadows galore. Then there was Metro/Modern with the ultra-flat, boxy, abstract look. Now it seems we're getting some unholy union of the two. I'm thrilled.

[Qub3d]

On 5/11/2017 at 4:55 PM, LAwLz said:

Even if you ignore the fact like it lacking a lot of hugely important buttons (this PC and network being two major ones I can't see) it is still really bad use of space.

This is talking about websites, but you may find this article concerning the tend towards massive amounts of whitespace enlightening

[thedogowl]

Not very tech related but did anyone else pick up the horrible background noise going on in the music track. Sounds like the moment just before an old fashioned kettle starts to whistle the whole way through, pretty annoying! 

[Lazmarr]

On 2017-5-11 at 8:05 PM, shermantanker said:

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You can see the Fluent design right now on Windows 10 Calculator app

[Notional]

56 minutes ago, Lazmarr said:

You can see the Fluent design right now on Windows 10 Calculator app

Pretty much. Basically aero 2.0. But I like it.

[Sauron]

On 5/12/2017 at 0:31 AM, vorticalbox said:

me too. I've just got suck of the pushing updates, applications and the spying. 

 

I've had ubuntu installed for a few weeks now, I haven't needed to restart once after installing updates. 

Be aware that while ubuntu will never force you to reboot, some updates (namely kernel updates) won't take effect until you do.

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

Be aware that while ubuntu will never force you to reboot, some updates (namely kernel updates) won't take effect until you do.

yeah I know, it says after the update if you need to reboot.