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=== The GUI/UI controversy ===
 
There has been some debate whether FutureOS' working environment can be labeled as a Graphical User Interface. On one hand, it does use icons, and it does have support for a mouse cursor. On the other hand though, it lacks several of the features a user has come to expect from a GUI OS, such as windows (and, what's more, windows that can be manipulated), menus and true (and customizable) icons pointing to various files or devices. Instead, there are some fixed icons, and most of them merely execute commands, something that makes them buttons rather than icons.
 
The developer insists, however, that this constrained set of features makes FutureOS eligible to be called a GUI. But if this is the case, and if someone wants to experience a GUI on the CPC, there are much better alternatives such as [[CEUS_Desktop_2.0|CEUS]], the [[Desktop_Environment_System|Desktop Environment System]] or, of course, [[SymbOS|SymbOS]].
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