[SpaceBar]

Motif on HP/UX looked nothing like MS-Windows in the before times. Any ‘similarity’ is simply the GUI version of parallel evolutionary paths. Eyes for example have been tried different ways and re engineered numerous times in biological history. A desktop with graphical folders in a neat clean layout is a good solid time-tested paradigm, just like having legs is good for locomotion on land.

[bobcat62]

Having never owned or extensively used a Microsoft PC, I don’t find their environment that great.

I used to work for DEC. I’ve used UIS, Motif, the HP/UX environment, Sun (BSD & Solaris variants), Sri, & Apollo. My original Unix work was on X10. There are improvements in the windowing environments done by Linux devotees. It’s unfortunate that each of these environments is yet another distribution.