Very nice. Someone needs to do Windows 3.1 :)
Make Linux look like Windows 95
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Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#62I have used themes like this on Linux and also some to make it look like MacOS. What I really want on Linux are tools that are written to be exactly like Windows, no more no less. Why? Well in addition to the numerous OS related problems I seem to encounter every time I go back and do a clean install of a distro like Ubuntu I am also annoyed by how poorly designed many of the basic tools like the calculator is. The W…
Have you tried the gnome app "drawing" or the kde apt "kolourpaint" ?
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#63I have used themes like this on Linux and also some to make it look like MacOS. What I really want on Linux are tools that are written to be exactly like Windows, no more no less. Why? Well in addition to the numerous OS related problems I seem to encounter every time I go back and do a clean install of a distro like Ubuntu I am also annoyed by how poorly designed many of the basic tools like the calculator is. The W…
How about WINE?
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#64Can anyone think of a reason why to do this? Apart from personal fun project, of course!
Some people like very simple interfaces, icons and schemes. It's a very utilitarian interface and works fine. I often use lxqt which is pretty barebones on VMs to cut down a bit on the memory footprint.
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#65But does it support thumbnails in the file picker?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because that desktop is honestly clearer and faster to understand that today's chromeless trends. Buttons look like buttons, and text boxes are obvious.
And there is just enough whitespace. Not waaayyyyy toooooo muuuuccchhh. And there’s consistency. Not eight generations of UI redesigns for each control. And you can actually tell which window has the focus.
AWS's recent redesign makes every single UI element have 16px of whitespace. What exactly was the point?
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#67I have used themes like this on Linux and also some to make it look like MacOS. What I really want on Linux are tools that are written to be exactly like Windows, no more no less. Why? Well in addition to the numerous OS related problems I seem to encounter every time I go back and do a clean install of a distro like Ubuntu I am also annoyed by how poorly designed many of the basic tools like the calculator is. The W…
Have you tried the gnome app "drawing" or the kde apt "kolourpaint" ?
Kolour Paint is really good - basically a much improved version of MS Paint in terms of interface and simplicity. I run a GNOME system but I still use the Klour Paint flatpak since it's so good.
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#68This with WINE is what I think is the perfect combination of GUI and CLI... but as a long-time Windows user, several things stood out and made it look slightly off: the menu bar and padding around the icon labels is too tall the window borders are slightly too wide (compared to the default) scrollbar buttons shouldn't disable at end of travel sort direction indicator in header control (which first appeared in Win2k)…
This comment makes me so happy. If I read it anywhere else I'd invoke Poe's Law and guess it was a joke. But it being HN I know it's for real, and I love it. Excellence in all we do
I like the meta-joke of complaining about the kerning and calling it "keming"
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#69It won't convincingly look like Windows 95 to me without a ton of Invalid Page Faults in kernel32.dll. (Can somebody give me a basic explanation of what that was??)
Ok, so a page fault is when you try to access a memory address that's not mapped by the MMU, or a write to a memory address that's mapped as read only. The MMU works in pages though, not individual addresses, on x86, standard pages are 4096 bytes, although larger pages are available. A valid page fault is when the OS has allocated that page in the current context, but not actually mapped it; it could be a not yet mapped in page from a memory-mapped file, or a page that was swapped to disk, or a page that was allocated but not yet used (not sure if win95 does that), or a write to a page that is allocated as read-write but is currently mapped as read-only and needs copy-on-write (COW) processing now. An invalid page fault is a read or a write to a page that the MMU doesn't have a mapping for and the OS also doesn't have a mapping for. These errors can be caused by many things; often a programming error leads to pointers being overwritten with unrelated data, when they're dereferenced it could access the wrong data or it could cause an invalid page fault. Hardware errors can also result in bad addresses in a pointer. Sometimes it's unintended interactions between running software or software and hardware.
Re: Make Linux look like Windows 95
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both a more efficient use of screen space (at least, compared to the default themes of XFCE, crucially, but also KDE, GNOME, and others), and an aesthetically better visual design. I am surprised to have just written this latter observation, considering this came from Microsoft, but I suppose the era when it was designed demanded it, both as a result of the lower screen resolutions used, and the the contemporary mark…
I wouldn't say marketing so much as Microsoft did a lot of usability testing back then where psychologists threw people in a room and took notes while they interact with the UI. I don't think any OSS projects have this luxury (or money needed to throw around for that sort of thing). Raymond Chen vaguely references it here https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120126-00/?p=84... Also, back then, you had to make…
The Gnome project performs usability tests pretty often. That's what led to decisions like deprecating the secondary app menu (app menu in the title bar) and the newer horizontal workspace layout, iirc.