Microsoft is stepping up their game

They are obsessed with 3D

Well, they're at least stepping up their game if the game is "how many resources does the UI eat up?"

The scale looks like what i imagine a robotic dog shit to look like.

@runfrodorun aye, but while you're admiring it, they're selling your internet history to WeAreNotAScam Ltd.

Wait wait wait...
Light, Depth, Motion... Isn't it material design?

Ay, I found this. I think the taskbar looks a little less cramped.

@Deserter it is like macOS and material design had a baby.

@codesculptor It's like a textured and less saturated version of material design

@RevThwack Yep, They clearly win "Most Resource Hungry Award"

They should focus on fixing their update process instead of bloating their UI. (Seriously, it shouldn't be that difficult to install updates in the background without making the system unusable for 30 minutes, the whole "update and restart" is just retarded (If you can't apply a patch to something that is running then just copy it, patch the copy and do a fast rename to swap out the old versions next time the system boots)

@runfrodorun sounds intriguing, I made the swap to Linux (Ubuntu) recently so I'm happy AF

@runfrodorun Can you explain that to me pls, I thought systemd was open source, what's bad about it?

Utterly useless

@runfrodorun Get it now, thanks for your, as always, detailed explanation!

@runfrodorun ik, might just take Ubuntu and build on it to keep them out the mix (or at least try to)

@runfrodorun is it the one where you have to code your own driver or the one where display scaling issues aren't something to be bothered by?

@runfrodorun i hope you're still calm enough to answer this. What distros do you personally approve of?

What is it? Is a new version coming out?

Good design is good design. I'm not a microsoft fan and usually use OSX and I'll even say this looks really good.

@7Raiden It is for the Fall Update 2017, a second part of Creators update. They are basically updating the UI to suit their AR madness lately.
The new design language is called Fluent Design.

@Deserter Well it looks nice though, I wouldn't mind it using it ;)

Is it about the popup that I started getting (and ignoring) since last week :) ?

@7Raiden I don't think so. Fall should be around September.

@Deserter ahahah Sorry, brain fart.

Like, "last time that I checked fall starts in September" xD

I like it A LOT

STFU and fix all the bugs that's not letting me do my work and improve the performance for God's sake. Looks are not everything Microsoft

Till date I still use the greyed out win98 theme on my win 7 office laptop and seriously scared of invoking the aero theme monster which eats up my system resources for breakfast. "Bare Necessities" --> Unix,. "Dark Excessities" --> Win 10

@runfrodorun No hate for BSD, but if it's just about ditching systemd you can just replace it. Using Debian-based distros without it is difficult, but Gentoo ships with OpenRC as default, and in Arch you can replace systemd fairly easily.

You'd need to switch away from Gnome though. I recently installed Gentoo with Cinnamon. Takes some patience to install, but the resulting system turned out awesome.

@runfrodorun I'll defend the Gentoo fort, we can't let them chase us away ;)

Okay ! Apart home these windows hate comments i personally love the new design language! Looks pretty !

@fun2code Thank :P

We at microsoft have taken the same approach with words as we have with your system resources. We say so little using so many of them.

What in the actual fuck