That Mac thread!

[Jadi]

Bolded for truth.

Back on subject, Windows 7 removed most of the "flashy but not practical" crap they had on Vista which was extremely irritating. They made the OS run faster and they got rid of many bugs that Vista had. They made the security system less "pull your hair out in frustration" and generally improved it. It's all "preference" if you will, but it cause major issues with making it not user friendly for the sake of looking pretty. Source: PCworld article I read like forever ago (can't find to link) and actual experience with both.

So basically touchups like I said.. those are changing the system defaults.. not changing the system. They reg-edited it.

The job of the OS is to be as invisible as possible to the user. When the user goes to accomplish a task, the very last thing they should think about or receive a notification from is the OS. The perfect OS is something like the OS that runs your car's computer.. you don't think about it or acknowledge that it's there.. it silently assists you in the task of driving, while you concentrate on.. driving.

In desktop computing space we are a long way from there.. however Interfaces like Gnome 3 and Aqua go further to this end of getting out of your way and letting you work then Aero on Windows does.. Windows sometimes acts like a needy child always wanting attention..

Metro from 8 is plagued with a whole new set of problems, such as hidden options, inconsistent interfaces as it switches back and forth and inconsistency with the ribbon interface on all the flagship apps. Including the requirement to preform mouse yoga a times to do what once was a simple task.