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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

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Post by mk_stjames »

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else.

Windows XP's level of 'plug and play' for devices/drivers ushered in the modern OS feel from a usability standpoint, but from a 'get-shit-done' GUI and responsiveness standpoint Win 2000 (and up to Windows Server 2003 by extension) was all I ever wanted/needed.

These may be rose tinted glasses though, and I'd be interested to hear counterpoints.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

DaSHacka wrote: post #22
izacus wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you'll need to slowly make peace with the fact that people don't want their work stolen by AIs.

Ironic, considering that this whole project is built upon stealing the design of Windows 7

Don't think it's really accurate to describe restoring an old theme to an OS as "stealing". It would be stealing if they made their own OS using the Win7 theme.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by pelagicAustral »

mk_stjames wrote: post #31

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. Windows XP's level of 'plug and play' for devices/drivers ushered in the modern OS feel from a usability standpoint, but from a 'get-shit-done' GUI and responsiveness standpoint Win 2000 (and up to Windows Server 2003 by ext…

Agree, that 2000/Millennium aesthetic was absolutely peak design and usability.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by thisislife2 »

varispeed wrote: post #30
bambax wrote: post #7

At 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.

I once got abuse from an Income Tax official for claiming that an email with the details they requested had been sent to them, as the official opened Outlook and searched for it in front of me and couldn't find it! Had to convince the guy to try multiple different keywords before it luckily emerged in the search results.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by qsort »

mk_stjames wrote: post #31

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. Windows XP's level of 'plug and play' for devices/drivers ushered in the modern OS feel from a usability standpoint, but from a 'get-shit-done' GUI and responsiveness standpoint Win 2000 (and up to Windows Server 2003 by ext…

Same here, Windows 2000 is peak UI, I never liked the Frutiger Aero aesthetics. My only criticism is that it was, in a sense, too successful and elements like the taskbar and start menu got ossified and the design stagnated. Apple's F3 show all windows, F4 spotlight is far better. Windows didn't even get multiple desktops until Windows 10.

I guess I like the design language but I wouldn't be prepared to give back the usability of modern UIs.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by blobcat »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #10

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

> can something like this happen for linux

For win9x/win2k style this is really neat:

https://codeberg.org/Sliver_X/Redmond97-SE

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by londons_explore »

rie_t wrote: post #15

I really do miss the design of Windows 7 and the apps of that era (think Office 2007 style) I hope it comes back

Office 2007 was the last time someone had a vision and fully executed it.

Every design refresh since then has been half finished and pushed out the door with too many bits of the old left.

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by picsao »

mk_stjames wrote: post #31

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. Windows XP's level of 'plug and play' for devices/drivers ushered in the modern OS feel from a usability standpoint, but from a 'get-shit-done' GUI and responsiveness standpoint Win 2000 (and up to Windows Server 2003 by ext…

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Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by monegator »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #10

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

I'd rather have KDE on windows 10. Or, better, the whole lot of tiny UX improvements kde has (all the visual/audio controls, the system settings that make sense and are not buried withing 4-5 menus, things like that)

Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

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Post by drooopy »

mk_stjames wrote: post #31

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of something else. Windows XP's level of 'plug and play' for devices/drivers ushered in the modern OS feel from a usability standpoint, but from a 'get-shit-done' GUI and responsiveness standpoint Win 2000 (and up to Windows Server 2003 by ext…

I've lived through every evolution of Windows from 3.1 up to 11 and Millenium/2000 still remains my favourite and I will always consider it the most 'get-shit-done' UI that Microsoft has ever built. Up until W10 removed the feature, I used to turn off the Themes service so that I could get the classic UI back.

And I also completely agree with your point that everything else since then has felt like a poorly placed theme on top of something else.

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