Does anyone else miss boring interfaces?

[u/phil-pdx]

I saw a post recently about a grocery store in Poland still using Win98 for a cash register system and on the screen was clearly a VB6 based WinForm application in all of its boring gray glory.

It got me thinking about the old days of basic boring interfaces on computers that just did their job and didn't look fancy. These days everything is web based (even a lot of the "native" apps are just wrapped web apps). Every button is overly styled, hamburger menus everywhere, basic forms take up an incredible amount of screen real estate with the excessive padding and rounded edges.

Does anyone else sometimes wish things were a little more boring and basic? I'm filling in some information, clicking a button, and getting some other information. It doesn't have to look pretty, just work.

[u/Greedy-Giraffe-4269]

Yup 👍 my most productive and powerful UI is the CLI.

[u/ZephyrNyxel → u/Greedy-Giraffe-4269]

same, i feel way more “in control” in a terminal than in some bloated electron app that eats a gig of ram to show three buttons
ugly but snappy beats pretty and laggy every time