Office after maybe 2000?

CentOS after 8

I can’t get over how ugly it looks. I guess it’s supposed to be transparent but often it just looks greyed out and edges of things look like they anti-aliased the images, took the residual, and sharpened the aliases just to make everything be surrounded by a distracting halo.

I appreciate the idea of having multiple windows on iPad (Win 8 had that how long ago?) but I was playing Arknights and the main UI trope in Arknights is you drag and drop your ‘operators’ from the edge onto the playing field and when I do that the whole window comes loose so I disabled that feature.

Software: OmniGraffle 7 <-- OmniGraffle 6

Book: SICP (I like the 2nd edition best, now the latest based on Python is an aesthetic crime IMHO.)

For software, many programs reach the bloat status, of course there is the old joke about any system growing until it can send email (or having its own embedded LISP variant ;-).

I feel Mac OS X peaked with Snow Leopard, though it wasn’t until Catalina when I started refusing to upgrade my personal Macs, which remained at Mojave until I retired them from daily driving.

I also remember SimCity (the successor to SimCity 4) and SimCity Societies not being well-received. Sadly the SimCity franchise is dead; I enjoyed SimCity 2000 and 4 (I never played 3000).

The fourth generation of Pokémon games, in my opinion, was the high water mark of the franchise’s main series games, peaking at Heart Gold/Soul Silver.