I made WinTile for gnome. Gave me back quarter tiling.
Well, first I tweak my windows to mimic the appearance of the windows that I liked, windows 7. Then I tweak my Linux to mimic that.
Just because hurr durr windows bad, doesn’t mean their huge team of UI and UX designers didn’t ever come up with a good design. And like most things Microsoft, I take pleasure in pirating it when I can.
Goddamn it I still miss 7
IMO, Windows’s UI/UX might seem good only if you haven’t tried anything actually different. Tiling/scrolling WMs is the way.
I’m pretty much always picking XFCE or KDE over just a WM. In the case of KDE, I use it like Windows. I make XFCE as Unity-like as possible, which I believe is the best interface for limited screen real estate.
That’s no problem actually, given that Windows frequently copied KDE you’d just go full circle
I do bind Ctrl-E for a new file browser and Ctrl-D to show desktop which I picked up from Windows.
I tried doing this at first, but i just kept being frustrated every time something wasn’t like on windows…
Then i gave tiling managers (i3 specifically) a try…
Here I am now daily-driving Hyprland and writing custom ui with quickshell…
There’s nothing wrong with tuning your UI to match one you’re more comfortable with. Thats the beauty of Linux.
I wish I could tweak Win 11 to look like Win 7. The only improvement since then was putting the Folder Up button back and adding tabs to Explorer, everything else is worse.
There’s this project you could try in a vm https://classic7.lol/
Exact same. That missing up button alone made me not like Windows 7, I didn’t realize how much I relied on it in xp. I have one pc that I keep Windows 11 on for work because there’s just too much niche software I need that only supports Windows, but everything else is Linux at this point.
Anyone with handwriting that meticulous is the real psycho
I tweak mine to mimic OS/2. It’s why I have a panel at the top of my screen to mimic the one in OS/2 Warp 4.
Yes… but it’s really… WINDOWS 98.
Windows 8… or Windows 11 😬
There is a scale of psychopathy…
XP, though? Hell yeah. I still miss that theme.
The Media Center theme was a nice twist on the default XP theme I’ll admit.
XP or NT, I’d go back
Lol, I grew up with the 98se theme and xp theme, and at this point i just think they’re both incredibly ugly. Peak windows desktop prettiness and usability was windows 7 for me.
I disabled the UI stuff where it would look like Windows 2000 from XP until it stopped letting me. Different strokes, I guess.
98 SE.
Windows 95 blew my mind.
Then windows 98 preview also was amazeballs
WindowsME
Psychopath
The Mountain Dew Baja blast of windows releases
Inexplicably beloved by furries?
… no hang on, that actually tracks.
Windows Me!
Vista
vista and 7 both look really good, so thats fair
XP
Honestly, 8 and 8.1 weren’t bad visually (technically a whole different matter). I wouldn’t mind making my WM resemble good old Windows 8, but actually has a sane technical base of Linux underneath it.
It was the one with the weird start menu wasn’t it? Also wasn’t it the one that they started adding the second duplicate ui in a half assed way?
Like where they ended up with 2 control panels
Yeah, Microsoft removed the Start Menu and added full screen tiles, that were widgets that updated with stuff (like news). I don’t remember when the two 2 control panels things happened, Windows had always been a mess to me up to that point. It could’ve been sooner or later, because Windows was built with legacy support in mind.
DOS
Powershell
That’s one of the bad ones
I tweak my linux so it becomes a prison for anyone that boots that isn’t me, we are not the same.
Reminds me of this youtuber that fell for a scammer’s bait intentionally except he was in a VM of hannah montana linux. The scammer was so fucking confused haha
“what in the fuck is a luks?”
That’s why I log in through tty. What comes next is anyone’s guess. Nerd wizardry.
“We tweaked your windows to mimic linux”
-Microslop, after windows 10
I use KDE because it looks like Windows 10… also gnome feet.
I tweak my Linux to look like TempleOS.
Do you have the routine that shuffles bible verses?
Of course, 3d sprites included.
The fuck? When opening the screenshots and scroll half way through the XFCE4 Screensaver lock screen my monitor starts blinking like crazy.
🎼when a grid’s misaligned with another behind
that’s a moiré
