Back when the Start Menu made sense. It wasn't rose colored glasses, it was functional.
Windows XP Professional
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Re: Windows XP Professional
#52Win XP remains my favourite OS till date. I was in college and getting hands on a pirated copy back then makes me so nostalgic. There was a cambrian explosion of tools to customize the look and feel. TweakXP pro is the one I remember. All pirated off-course.
I remember being extremely envious of the "Alienware theme" that you could only get with an actual Alienware machine.
That was surprisingly short-lived though, such custom experiences are uncommon these days. Seems like nobody is theming Windows- they just fill it with crapware.
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#53You cannot drag & drop the Recycle Bin :(
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#54Yes please. Can I please have a simple desktop that doesn't get in my way back?
There is still Mate, the Gnome 2 fork.
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#55How 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…
I could tell instantly in the loading screen because the three blocks in the progress bar move smoothly across it.
Yup, and on just about every system I used there was a stutter in it about 75% of the way through.
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#56See also: https://www.windows93.net/
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean xfce? KDE is bloated. Yes it’s still bloated even if Valgrind says it has no memory leaks.
KDE is bloated, but coming from Windows10 it feels very familiar but with all of Windows' extra shite (ads/tracking/sign in/fucking onedrive) chopped out. I couldn't be happier with it to be honest. [edit]: I forgot to mention as well, at least on arch you dont have to install the (I forget the package name exactly) kde applications package off pacman, if you don't install it you'll need to install dolphin and a few…
Yes, this. I'm a long time XFCE user but when I got a beefier machine I switched to KDE, and unlike XFCE it manages the hardware thoroughly enough (sleep/brightness/network/audio) that I don't have to manually hack anything. I tolerate the bloat for that reason. I disabled all the kwallet and pim stuff though, that was a mess.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#58How 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.
I believe that anyone who isn't explicitly looking for it is subconsciously frustrated by the lack of it and they just don't know why the UI is "annoying".
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#59If you want the real thing: https://lrusso.github.io/VirtualXP/VirtualXP.htm (takes less memory than Miro, at least in Firefox :D)
Works great! Tested on Orion. Sad to see I couldn't delete system32.
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#60I am viewing this post on a real Windows XP system on a 440BX platform from 1998. ;)
The BIOS splash text loads and animates but not much else. I'm using Palemoon 25 (SSE1). Impressive that it loads at all!