on OS user interfaces

A lot of the time, our preferences for what an OS user interface should look like come down, ultimately, to either nostalgia or past experiences. Someone gets annoyed at a UI change and their instinctive reaction is to assume that whatever &ldquo;the old way&rdquo; was, was inherently better. This especially applies to people who use Linux (or any of the BSDs, but for purposes of this page,…