On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems. Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones.

With a number of people defecting from Ubuntu to Mint Linux because of the Ubuntu's Unity desktop, I though I should check out Mint:

New: Mint Linux 11 with GNOME 2.32
New: Mint Linux 12 with GNOME 3
New: Oracle Solaris 11

And while I am at it: a big "what were you thinking?" to the brilliant marketing genius who though it was a great idea to place a "Power button" right where the "Print Screen" button normally is on certain new keyboards! A Power button on a keyboard is not a bad idea by itself - Macs used to have those - but Right where the Print Screen key is? And right next to the backspace and F12 key! Keys I use and fat finger all the time!

So whenever I happen to have to use this keyboard and I want to take a screen shot of something - POOF! It suddenly shuts the computer down, possibly losing all my work! And the most retarded thing about it is that this key can only turn the computer *OFF*. It can not be used to turn the computer *ON*!

Anyway...

If you find anything on this site that doesn't work right, or if you have any suggestions please e-mail me! (If you do, please be absolutely sure to put something meaningful in the subject line, otherwise it will get deleted as spam) NOTE: It appears Hotmail may be blocking e-mail from my mail provider. Blame Microsoft.

And be sure to check out my favorite GUI VisiCorpVisi On now with a downloadable hard drive image that you can run under MESS 0.101 or later. Back in in 1983 there was a GUI platform and office package for IBM PCs called Visi On from VisiCorp. Legend has it Bill Gates saw a demo of this running at the 1982 comdex running on an IBM PC. He freaked out because Microsoft didn't have anything like this yet, ran back to Microsoft Headquarters, and had them start work on what, several years later, became Windows.

And if you haven't already, don't forget to laugh really hard at Microsoft BOB!