I feel old when I realize that I have used most of them!
Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
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Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
#52The descriptions under the colors are very obviously LLM generated and make little sense. No human would make statements like what is written under each entry. Contains many LLM-isms like em-dashes, loaded words, and load-bearing phrases (emphasis intended). Consider removing or rewriting those bits.
What is a load bearing phrase here?
Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
#53My favorite was the blue in Windows 2000. Never cared much for the green in Windows 95/98. When installing Windows 98 later (because games) I would try to set up the same blue. Instead of getting it correct, I guessed, and ended up with #336699 which was easy to remember and "close enough". I see now that it's closer to Haiku (almost perfect, #336698) than Windows 2000.
I agree, the color was great, and also in general Windows 2000 was very good. I used both the desktop and server versions for years. After that Windows XP made me switch to Linux. Since then I've only really used Debian and Mac OS.
I recently tried installing Windows 11 on a PC to run some games. The contrast with Windows 2000 is crazy, what a mess. Even just the control panel has three different UI frameworks mixed in one application. The whole thing is slow on a modern CPU with 64gb ram.
How did they get from Windows 2000 which arguably may have been ahead of Linux in terms of kernel and at least on par if not better than Mac OS in terms of UX to todays version of Windows 11?
Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
#54The descriptions under the colors are very obviously LLM generated and make little sense. No human would make statements like what is written under each entry. Contains many LLM-isms like em-dashes, loaded words, and load-bearing phrases (emphasis intended). Consider removing or rewriting those bits.
What is a load bearing phrase here?
It's a joke, Claude AI calls everything load bearing. Once you see it it cannot be unseen.
Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually not so easy to pick a speaking name for each color, since many colors are used in different OSs. I tried to use neutral and standard color names were they exist. Things like Windows Classic blue are probably always description-slop, though. Another user suggested to use media quotes etc. on OSs, which I think is actually a pretty good idea. I might swap the LLM generated placeholders for something like…
Why do you even need the text? Just show the color, year and the name of the OS.
In many cases, there is some additional information I want to add, like which themes the colors were used as background color in, or which palette they come from if there are several different.
I also discovered a lot about the different OSs while researching the colors and I think it's a nice nod towards the museum character of the site to add fun/nerd facts when I stumble upon them.
But true, in many cases there is no need for text - I just removed the tagline which didn't add anything useful.
Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
#56The descriptions under the colors are very obviously LLM generated and make little sense. No human would make statements like what is written under each entry. Contains many LLM-isms like em-dashes, loaded words, and load-bearing phrases (emphasis intended). Consider removing or rewriting those bits.
You're right. This also came up in other comments. I just removed pretty much all AI placeholder texts or descriptors or replaced them with "hand-written" content, where I found additional context helpful or interesting.
Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
#57Where are the 8-bit systems? Not all of them were black.
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#58Huh, I do not remember Windows 1.0 being that shade of green but screenshots confirm what's here.
AFAIK, the actual color was highly dependent on the hardware used (e.g. video adapter, CRT, etc.). That's why photographs of a Windows 1.0 screen might look vastly different.
The color I listed is what Windows outputs on the software side. It's pretty much an EGA dither of bright cyan and bright green. It's what you would get with todays hardware.
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#59Solaris 9 and Haiku OS are the tops.
Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
#60When I was just getting into Linux and trying out all the random window managers, I found that I really liked the hues of green and purple that Blackbox came with.
Update: I went into the source code and found the colors I was fond of. I didn't care for the red but I'm including it for completeness Grey: #aaaaaa Green: #77aa77 Purple: #9077aa Blue: #7790aa Red: #aa5555 Source: https://github.com/bradleythughes/blackbox/tree/master/data/...
Added, along with all other styles featuring solid color backgrounds :) https://desktopcolors.com/os/blackbox