> a fully-featured File Explorer work-alike complete with previews of every file type and a full-on context menu copy
Corel LinuxOS did this at the turn of the century. Xandros took it even further.
Sadly, although a company is still around and owns the names, they do not use any of the original code.
Xandros's version of KDE 2 was the best Linux desktop of its era and it wasn't even close. By a decade later, Ubuntu Unity took that role, but a lot of people don't know how to drive Windows by keyboard, and aren't willing to learn new things, so they hated it -- especially here on HN, which called for it to be cancelled, and Canonical listened.
Corel LinuxOS did this at the turn of the century. Xandros took it even further.
Sadly, although a company is still around and owns the names, they do not use any of the original code.
Xandros's version of KDE 2 was the best Linux desktop of its era and it wasn't even close. By a decade later, Ubuntu Unity took that role, but a lot of people don't know how to drive Windows by keyboard, and aren't willing to learn new things, so they hated it -- especially here on HN, which called for it to be cancelled, and Canonical listened.