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ReactOS is actually looking pretty good. The Windows classic layout was one of my favourites: simple, functional, no eye-candy but not ugly either.
I think I’m going to play with it a bit in a virtual box and see what works and doesn’t. Perhaps this could be an alternative option so I can run those programs that I occasionally still need a Windows licence for.
Random thought after looking at the task manager in that screenshot: I hope they didn’t copy Windows’ inability to resize most system dialog windows. That is one of the most infuriating GUI issues I know.
Edited 2014-11-27 14:02 UTC
Why would you want to resize system dialog windows? They generally adjust to the contents.
Whenever there is a list control or a table, the text and labels usually are trimmed when they are too long or you get those pesky horizontal scrollbars. And don’t get me started on having to resize those table columns within the scroll pane just so you can read the last part of a command! That’s all really frustrating when you know that dialog takes less than 30% of your screen.
I think `msconfig` is one of those, but it’s definitely not limited to a single instance, I’ve seen it several times unfortunately.
Typical example grabbed from an image search:
http://www.optimizingpc.com/i/w7/msconfig_startup.png
/rant mode
Edited 2014-11-27 16:23 UTC
Ahhh. well that’s not a system dialog, that’s just a utility with a bad UI. I thought you were talking about the File Open/Save Dialogs, which are resizable, or Messages boxes, which have a fixed size, but grow to accommodate a large amount of text.
Though I agree, msconfig, and apps like it can be pretty annoying.
Ah indeed, you are correct. I should have used a better term.