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More like, "10 Operating Systems With Great Screenshots".

Using the ability to run Firefox as a metric, I think only Haiku, ReactOS and OpenBSD qualify as great.

I had to double check the article publish dates. I don't know who the main audience for this site is but if someone told me these screenshots were of state-of-the-art alternative OSes back in 1999 or earlier, I would have believed it in a second.

Why? Because the definition of state-of-the-art OS is one with a useless Aero/Compiz/whatever 3d graphics Hollywood feel?

IMO, the most exciting OS stuff is far from visible in the UI, let alone screenshots...

> "10 Operating Systems With Great Screenshots"

Except for OpenBSD, which I suspect they made look as old and frumpy as possible for that article. I'm sure OpenBSD can run about as many attractive window managers as Linux can.

Well, the default X installation really does look that ugly. I don't think anyone doesn't customize it at least a little, though (it's fvwm, which can actually look totally fine if you tweak it a little.)

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