For those of you who never thought about old computers and modern interfaces, I want to remind you that "simple" and "flat" interfaces of modern operating systems rely on high resolutions and 24-bit colours a lot.

Take Gnome 46, for example.

1920x1080 in VGA palette looks somewhat okay, but

640x480 in modern 24-bit colour looks like it's losing quite a lot of details, and

640x480x4bpp VGA 16 of the said interface is simply unusable. Perhaps this is why modern OSes demand at least 800x600 in True colour.

So, uh, do you know what you usually end up when you try to make your interfaces look OK in default palette and resolutions of 640x350 or 640x480?

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