Sorry for being (slightly?) off-topic: Is there a decent way to buy this LTSC edition of Windows?
It depends on your definition of "decent". Legal: yes, simple: maybe not. Search in past threads.
Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
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#93Everyone 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…
Out of curiosity, are there any good comparisons in-detail between Windows 2000 and present-day Linux? I do have the same feeling that Windows 2000 was in many regards the best UI (tied with 7 maybe), but after switching to Linux I'm wondering if this is maybe more rose-colored glasses than I thought. KDE or XFCE seem to mimic the Windows 2000 design in many ways, but they are still far away from feeling as snappy or…
I can't speak about the grayness, but the lack of snappiness I think is thanks to the bloat and complexity of modern UIs. KDE in particular is a beast with a ton legacy code built up over the time, and a lot of bits and pieces put together by people from around the world, which results in a lack of cohesiveness... but that goes for most Linux DEs.
XFCE comes a bit closer to the old UX and cohesiveness, but is still a bit off. In saying that, Chicago95[1] for XFCE does a really great job of bringing that classic Win9X look to XFCE, so it's worth giving a shot. There's also a fork of it called MENT2K[2], which recreates the Win2K experience, also worth checking out.
The DEs I've seen being closest to recreating that classic experience have unfortunately been outside of Linux: ReactOS being the most obvious choice, and the other one being SerenityOS. Although not viable for daily driving yet, still fun to play around with in a VM.
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#94Everyone 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…
Windows didn't even get multiple desktops until Windows 10.
I believe that it has always supported multiple desktops since the introduction of the NT kernel. There just wasn't any UI provided in the OS for switching. I used a Microsoft PowerToy to switch between desktops, I think all the way back to NT 4.0.
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#95Will this get LTSC's security updates? I can seriously try this out as a daily driver if yes
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement. Particularly the ability to hit the Windows key and type the name of an application. Strictly speaking, this was introduced in Vista, but I feel like Windows 7 added a lot of useful polish to the Windows Vista style of UI. I otherwise agree that the older Win 2k era UI was pretty much an ideal UI. The whole "frutiger aero" look did…
The Start Menu integrated search would have been real nice if it worked properly, but unfortunately they decided on some kind of “search” algorithm that can't even do a substring match on items in the Start Menu. I have no clue what the thinking there was, but it drives me to not want to use it.
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Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#97Sorry for being (slightly?) off-topic: Is there a decent way to buy this LTSC edition of Windows?
Just use the well know script to activate it and send a donation to MS or something. The margin of profit from individual keys is nothing.
(Can I post the link, to the open source repo? Is it against the rules? I mean MS owns github and has no problem hosting it)
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#98What I miss about Windows 7 is the total control over the system, not the GUI styling. In fact, some features of Windows 10+ are quite handy, for example the desktop tiles, windows corners or build-in virtual desktops.
However, on Windows 7 you can set many things independently: windows caption bar size, menu font, message texts etc, which all require tweaking the registry in Windows 10+.
Classic 7 is only a styling tool and it will not bring me back these settings and control.
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#99actually Windows 7 has a special mode that turns off all aero entirely
I cannot remember what it is called
but makes it look almost like XP and the UI is very fast and crisp
it's under
System Properties -> Advanced -> Visual Effects -> Use visual styles on windows and buttons
Re: Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
#100Everyone 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…
7 is better than anything coming after it. Microsoft finally figured out the design, no ads embedded into every corner, no app store, no integration of every MS service into it.
Earlier than 7 versions can be discussed in terms of if they match or surpass 7 or not but for myself it was MS' pinnacle in OS design