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Re: Windows XP Professional

#41

Post by Mistletoe » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:10 PM UTC

Using this made me feel happy. I don't get that feeling from modern Windows.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#42

Post by dartharva » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:10 PM UTC

Der_Einzige wrote: post #19

saubeidl wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get an Arch-based distro with KDE.

You mean xfce? KDE is bloated. Yes it’s still bloated even if Valgrind says it has no memory leaks.

You mean Cinnamon? XFCE is ugly as hell and breaks a lot of things.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#43

Post by rasengan » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:12 PM UTC

tux3 wrote: post #6

This is a nice replication of the WinXP UI in JS (it is not a virtual machine running in your browser). https://docs.win32.run/ https://github.com/ducbao414/win32.run

It is slightly more than just a UI since all of the applications actually work (you can save and reload for example and still see your previous files too).

It seems functional to me!

Kudos to the author!

Re: Windows XP Professional

#44

Post by DustinBrett » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #17

How can you tell that any Windows or Mac clone UI is a re-implementation? Easy: try to move your mouse diagonally into the Send To menu after letting it pop up. If the send-to menu closes as you mouse over the item into the submenu, it's a clone. If the menu stays up even if you brush over another menu item, it's either real or a Good Clone. :) For the fun history, @DonHopkins had a thread a few years back: https://n…

On my website daedalOS it does indeed have a delay when your mouse leaves a sub menu. I didn't know people looked for that though.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#45

Post by ch_123 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

I feel slightly ashamed that I spent enough time using Windows XP that was able to spot that this was a clone based on the fonts and shadow effects alone.

Nice effort though.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#46

Post by Fergusonb » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

ianhawes wrote: post #27

sergiotapia wrote: post #24

Design peaked here for OS's. Perfect balance of colors and functionality, and gloss. This was the top.

No, it's just nostalgic.

I don't know, it's nice to have icons and buttons that actually look like what they're going to do instead of amorphous blobs.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#47

Post by DustinBrett » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:14 PM UTC

voidUpdate wrote: post #7

I was hoping this was emulation, like the windows 95 in js that exists, but its more of a simulator. The web browser doesnt work and the minesweeper game uses a text emoji instead of a picture for the face

Seems like v86 will be the king of this for a while longer.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#48

Post by mvieira38 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:14 PM UTC

kardianos wrote: post #2

Yes please. Can I please have a simple desktop that doesn't get in my way back?

I switched from Windows 10 to Fedora KDE 2 years ago and it's been good. Not great, but good. I do have the occasional problem with drivers and whatnot, but honestly Windows was just as bad, just with different stuff, and Windows was much less stable and much slower