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Re: Windows XP Professional

#91

Post by wibbily »

maplant wrote: post #33
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…

I could tell instantly in the loading screen because the three blocks in the progress bar move smoothly across it.

Man nothing drives me further up the wall than when a nice progress indicator with discrete segments gets animated with a lazy `to { rotate(360deg); }` etc[1]. It is my molehill to die on

[1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/41647820/file/original-8...

Re: Windows XP Professional

#92

Post by randunel »

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…

Ugh, all the links in that comment are dead, imgur and microsoft alike :(

Re: Windows XP Professional

#93

Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

silverquiet wrote: post #76
ianhawes wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's just nostalgic.

I often have a hard time telling if I'm being nostalgic. For me, 7 was peak Windows, but Win2K/XP would rank pretty close as well. I suppose the question for me is what have subsequent releases given us; what can we actually do with more recent versions of Windows that we could not accomplish back then?

XP or 7 in "classic", aka 2000 look. For practical reasons, like hardware-support, really working USB.

If running in some isolated VM for some superspecial APP still supporting running on 2000, why not? Uses much less memory.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#94

Post by metalliqaz »

wibbily wrote: post #91
maplant wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could tell instantly in the loading screen because the three blocks in the progress bar move smoothly across it.

Man nothing drives me further up the wall than when a nice progress indicator with discrete segments gets animated with a lazy `to { rotate(360deg); }` etc[1]. It is my molehill to die on [1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/41647820/file/original-8...

you just don't like how it looks, or is there something else wrong with it?

Re: Windows XP Professional

#95

Post by floxy »

devnull3 wrote: post #40

Win 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.

OS/2 is the nostalgic one for me.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#97

Post by tczMUFlmoNk »

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…

A classic article about a no-delay solution to this problem, not mentioned in the linked thread:

https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega...

Re: Windows XP Professional

#98

Post by BizarroLand »

thecosmicfrog wrote: post #63

"WIN32.RUN might have unexpected behaviors on browsers that are NOT Chromium-based (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.)" What would be the reasons this wouldn't run on Firefox? Genuine question from a non-web developer.

I ran it in icefox without an issue, even got a few games of minesweeper in.

The only issue I had was the mobi reader wouldn't work, but that was fine with me.

Re: Windows XP Professional

#99

Post by askonomm »

mvieira38 wrote: post #48
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

I also switched to KDE, and man, not needing an online account to use a operating system, not having any ads or constant spyware sending every click and keystroke to some ad partner is absolutely amazing. Sad that to get a decent user experience feels amazing, even though it's not really anything special, really goes to show how bad things have gotten.
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