The Space Brothers OS seems to be a Windows knock-off with a UI that vaguely resembles Longhorn (the version of Windows that Microsoft scrapped just before releasing the eldritch abomination that was the first version of Vista), but manages to be somewhat less hideous.

The relaxing blue colour scheme is designed to make it look as boring and corporate as possible.

It looks bumpy and glossy and exactly the way designers don’t want your OS to look in 2015, but what goes around comes around, and before you know it UI designers from 2025 will look back at Windows XP and call it the greatest achievement of humanity since the hamburger button and jQuery.

Miraculously, there doesn’t seem to be any weird spacing issues with the titlebars and the borders, which elevates it to state-of-the-art 2025 UX design.

I really wish I could be arsed to search for the name of this font so that I could make my computer look like Space Brothers’.

The system font is very readable, looks great on the various UI elements and has that square look that just screams “future”.

The icons are nice, and seem to be inspired by the ones found on OS X 10.4 and prior. They’re the kind of icons I would expect to see on the desktop of a ricer from 2004 with a bit of decency.

The animations look good too: when you open a file the window smoothly pops up on the screen like they do on Windows, and being an utopian version of Windows in 2025 all programs open instantly.

Unlike Windows, all the computers in the series seem to run the latest version of the system. It’s 2025 and Microsoft has already been forcibly shoving updates down your computer’s throat for 10 years, so this is understandable, but still a crowning achievement. Good job, future Microsoft.