can something like this happen for linux, I would love to see a linux desktop environment like windows 7 for windows 8 on linux, there's this: https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE
Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
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Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#22Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#23At work I am made to use Windows 11 and I hate it immensely. Everything's so slow. Nothing operates properly. In addition to forced reboots which are annoying as hell, it also reboots after some time on sleep, for no reason whatsoever. Copilot is everywhere and cannot be truly disabled without admin rights. While not strictly a Windows issue, Outlook is an incredible piece of garbage. It doesn't know if it's running…
Just to offer a counter point - I'm at Windows 11 Enterprise at work(as a game developer) and it just works. We don't have any copilot stuff because it has been disabled by corporate policy. I don't see any ads. The system is mega stable, for search I just use Everything, I don't have any issues with Explorer really, other than the stupid change of copy/paste into icons, which I've undone with one powershell command. I think as a C++ dev it's a great environment to work in.
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#24Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#25can something like this happen for linux, I would love to see a linux desktop environment like windows 7 for windows 8 on linux, there's this: https://github.com/er-bharat/Win8DE
There is a huge pletora of themes for KDE and Gnome to imitate OSX, Windows 95/98, XP, Vista/7, etc...
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#26I have used windows 7 since it launched and moved to 10 & 11. I like some design elements of windows 7, but I would absolutely not use it today. If you think, "I should try this", Any reason why? I'm really curious to know
> Any reason why?
The 2d design of modern interfaces is terrible. Everything looks like a "Label". Scrollbars are terrible. Light gray on dark gray. And, worst of all, they need 3d acceleration to draw a bloody 2d label.
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work with Windows 11 and don't see any major issue whatsoever. But note that 16GB RAM is "just" enough to run it smoothly. 32GB is better for serious (e.g development) work. I have run it even on Intel 4200U/4200M CPUs fine (CPU is from year 2014). I agree that new Outlook is buggy and not fully functional - that's why I still use old native MS Outlook.
It's possible half of my problems are because I don't have admin rights, and the other half is because the machine is too weak. Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway? I used to produce documents on an Amstrad PPC640. 640 stood for 640k of RAM (no hard disk). It was fine. I understand the above makes me sound like an old fart (or fool), and we have moved on from DOS. But what does Windows 11 do that Win…
> Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway?
Because code writers are lazy and prefer to use 20 levels of abstraction or a 5MB library for a simple function.
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work with Windows 11 and don't see any major issue whatsoever. But note that 16GB RAM is "just" enough to run it smoothly. 32GB is better for serious (e.g development) work. I have run it even on Intel 4200U/4200M CPUs fine (CPU is from year 2014). I agree that new Outlook is buggy and not fully functional - that's why I still use old native MS Outlook.
It's possible half of my problems are because I don't have admin rights, and the other half is because the machine is too weak. Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway? I used to produce documents on an Amstrad PPC640. 640 stood for 640k of RAM (no hard disk). It was fine. I understand the above makes me sound like an old fart (or fool), and we have moved on from DOS. But what does Windows 11 do that Win…
I honestly think this is a difficult and fascinating question. This is like the dark energy of software cosmology. Why is the natural state to get larger and more complex for un-proportionate pleasure of use?
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work with Windows 11 and don't see any major issue whatsoever. But note that 16GB RAM is "just" enough to run it smoothly. 32GB is better for serious (e.g development) work. I have run it even on Intel 4200U/4200M CPUs fine (CPU is from year 2014). I agree that new Outlook is buggy and not fully functional - that's why I still use old native MS Outlook.
It's possible half of my problems are because I don't have admin rights, and the other half is because the machine is too weak. Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway? I used to produce documents on an Amstrad PPC640. 640 stood for 640k of RAM (no hard disk). It was fine. I understand the above makes me sound like an old fart (or fool), and we have moved on from DOS. But what does Windows 11 do that Win…
Windows 11 can run many more different UI toolkits, all jumbled together. It has more graphical effects in there. It has so much telemetry and Microsoft Defender will never-ever give up and will inspect everything, all the time.
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#30At work I am made to use Windows 11 and I hate it immensely. Everything's so slow. Nothing operates properly. In addition to forced reboots which are annoying as hell, it also reboots after some time on sleep, for no reason whatsoever. Copilot is everywhere and cannot be truly disabled without admin rights. While not strictly a Windows issue, Outlook is an incredible piece of garbage. It doesn't know if it's running…
Outlook should be illegal. My biggest pet peeve is that its search doesn't work properly and it misses showing emails. I cannot count how many times I had relative crying calling me that someone is deleting her emails. The emails were there, just incredibly hard to find. Oh and the "Focused" mode that has zero sense.
I don't know how businesses operate using this garbage.