alt Hacker NewsSerious question: what are those things from windows 95/98 I might miss?
Rose tinted glasses perhaps, but I remember it as a very straightforward and consistent UI that provided great feedback, was snappy and did everything I needed. Up to and including little hints for power users like underlining shortcut letters for the & key.
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The only one I can think of, literally the only one, is grouped icons.
And even that's only because browsers ended up in a weird "windows but tabs but actually tabs are windows" state.
So yeah, I'd miss the UX of dragging tabs into their own separate windows.
But even that is something that still feels janky in most apps ( windows terminal somehow makes this feel bad, even VS code took a long time to make it feel okay ), and I wouldn't really miss it that much if there were no tabs at all and every tab was forced into a separate window at all times with it's own task bar entry.
I miss my search bar actually being a dumb grep of my indexed files. It's still frustrating typing 3 characters, seeing the result pop up in the 2nd key stroke, but having it transform into something else by the time I process the result.