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After booting into 'windows mode' and a delay, the hidden cloud intro from the win95cd (youtube:MaU5ED3LyXM) is being autoplayed fullscreen. There's also a qemu icon on the desktop that boots a random 50MiB win95 image I found on archive.org : D
Love love these nostalgic takes, reminds me of this Windows 98 demo in a 3D simulation I recently came across. There is a real demand for 90s aesthetics https://twitter.com/PCBANGio/status/1493850712471527426
I'll be the first to say the unpopular take on HN: I don't think Windows 95 looks that good (compared to today). I personally find more modern (like MacOS 10) styles to look the best, and flat designs to be just as usable as more skeumorphic ones. It seems to me that preference for UI styles is completely personal, probably being influenced by what OS we initially used. As someone (potentially a lot) younger than man…
What do you think of the shiny, glassy look of Vista and/or early MacOS 10? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista and https://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/iphon... Looked "space age", and less like the drab office building which Win 9x/MacOS 9 looked like. Is there any nostalgia for that?
I 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…
> Windows calculator is so simple that it makes it super easy to hop in, do a quick calculation via the numpad and jump out.
What's wrong with calculator in Linux? FWIW, I just fire up a Python interpreter and do calculations there.
Speaking of which, I feel Mac's Spotlight is a superior solution to ocassional calculation needs.
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> we hit peak desktop right around Windows 2000 I could not disagree more strongly. Win2000 buttons are tiny, drag areas are tiny, basically everything is tiny and unclickable. I strongly prefer the generously-proportioned, touch-inspired interfaces of the last 4-5 years.
People who have to actually get work done on a computer are almost always good with using a mouse and keyboard, so we understand how to move with precision and speed.
I 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…
Perhaps you should just use Windows. > Windows calculator is so simple that it makes it super easy to hop in, do a quick calculation via the numpad and jump out. What's wrong with calculator in Linux? FWIW, I just fire up a Python interpreter and do calculations there. Speaking of which, I feel Mac's Spotlight is a superior solution to ocassional calculation needs.