Check out SmolXP [1]. The one I setup had a 340MB qcow2 image, took about ~10 sec to boot to desktop with qemu, and used only 58MB ram idling on desktop. https://github.com/AFellowSpeedrunner/SmolXP
What do you use it for?
Windows XP Professional
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Re: Windows XP Professional
#212How 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…
In this case it's easier: the command prompt doesn't start for some reason.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Windows XP start menu sucked, no search function and it was common to have 3 columns full of shortcuts with folders inside folders. It only got better with Windows Vista.
Search is only a boon when the menu is so poorly organized and rendered it’s hard to find shit. I never needed search in XP cause I knew where everything was. Since Windows 8.1’s fucking abomination of a Start Menu, yeah, I’d miss having search.
can't beat press win key -> "not" -> press enter key -> notepad opens
Re: Windows XP Professional
#214How 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…
Another example, half of the stuff I tried had a different outcome from a actual Windows XP, on the systray, explorer side bar, what About dialogs were supposed to show, and so on.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 know talking about progress bars, it takes a lot of confidence to program a linear progress bar. You think you know when loading will be complete and think you know can break down the incremental progress made during loading. Instead we get these spinning wheels that are like "maybe in the future this wheel will stop and we will have a return value." No confidence whatsoever. I know this is true because Apple tri…
A CorelDraw version from the 1990s I used had an honest progress bar. Sometimes it went backwards, but by the time it got to the end, it was truly finished.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#216How 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…
How to tell you're running Windows 10: Right click an item in the taskbar. The menu will pop up one second later.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are UI libraries no longer a thing?
They are, essentially the current mess is just a privately funded welfare program for UX designers. I wish we could pay them to do something useful instead.
Are our software companies not greedy enough? Why do they waste money like this?
Re: Windows XP Professional
#218Check out SmolXP [1]. The one I setup had a 340MB qcow2 image, took about ~10 sec to boot to desktop with qemu, and used only 58MB ram idling on desktop. https://github.com/AFellowSpeedrunner/SmolXP
What do you use it for?
i'd use microxp (not this, but similar) to read visual novels on my android pohne
Re: Windows XP Professional
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are, essentially the current mess is just a privately funded welfare program for UX designers. I wish we could pay them to do something useful instead.
Are our software companies not greedy enough? Why do they waste money like this?
They are greedy but they aren't that good
Re: Windows XP Professional
#220Earlier 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...
The irony of progress indicators like the sunburst here is that everything okd is new again
In the Before Times your UNIX would have a progress bar that was basically the same spinning icon: overwrite - \ | / - \ | / in the same character location in quick succession.
It was as useless then as the spinning sunburst is now.
The linear indicator provides two bits of information: that something is happening, and that progress is being made towards completion. The sunburst only provides one.