There’s nothing wrong with tuning your UI to match one you’re more comfortable with. Thats the beauty of Linux.
I use KDE because it looks like Windows 10… also gnome feet.
When all I had was a netbook with 1gb of ram and really weak intel atom cpu, I’ve done the same, not for estetic reasons (there was a qtcurve theme that looked like gray windows theme of win 2000 - but worse, but it was extremely configurable and with it netbook turned into something marginally usable with kde 4.x).
This is one of the reasons i hate kde and love gnome
Windows 8… or Windows 11 😬
There is a scale of psychopathy…
XP, though? Hell yeah. I still miss that theme.
XP or NT, I’d go back
Lol, I grew up with the 98se theme and xp theme, and at this point i just think they’re both incredibly ugly. Peak windows desktop prettiness and usability was windows 7 for me.
I disabled the UI stuff where it would look like Windows 2000 from XP until it stopped letting me. Different strokes, I guess.
98 SE.
Windows 95 blew my mind.
Then windows 98 preview also was amazeballs
WindowsME
Psychopath
The Mountain Dew Baja blast of windows releases
Inexplicably beloved by furries?
… no hang on, that actually tracks.
Vista
vista and 7 both look really good, so thats fair
XP
Honestly, 8 and 8.1 weren’t bad visually (technically a whole different matter). I wouldn’t mind making my WM resemble good old Windows 8, but actually has a sane technical base of Linux underneath it.
It was the one with the weird start menu wasn’t it? Also wasn’t it the one that they started adding the second duplicate ui in a half assed way?
Like where they ended up with 2 control panels
Yeah, Microsoft removed the Start Menu and added full screen tiles, that were widgets that updated with stuff (like news). I don’t remember when the two 2 control panels things happened, Windows had always been a mess to me up to that point. It could’ve been sooner or later, because Windows was built with legacy support in mind.
DOS
Powershell
I tweak my linux so it becomes a prison for anyone that boots that isn’t me, we are not the same.
Reminds me of this youtuber that fell for a scammer’s bait intentionally except he was in a VM of hannah montana linux. The scammer was so fucking confused haha
That’s why I log in through tty. What comes next is anyone’s guess. Nerd wizardry.
“what in the fuck is a luks?”
The fuck? When opening the screenshots and scroll half way through the XFCE4 Screensaver lock screen my monitor starts blinking like crazy.
I always loved the MacOS UI, so I emulate it in Linux. The visuals without the OS itself is just 👌
It was funny the first 5000 times I saw someone do it, but now it feels like I’m on a 5th date with someone who is still going on a monologue about epicly owning their bitch ex.
I tweak my Linux to look like TempleOS.
Do you have the routine that shuffles bible verses?
Of course, 3d sprites included.
I went in the far opposite direction, I tried to make Mint look like an entirely fictional OS, of the sort that might be seen in a video game.
… well you can’t just say that and not provide screenshots, that sounds cool AF
The left dock is Plank Reloaded and it tucks out of sight when stuff gets maximized. Same for the top bar too. The turtle in both of them is the applications menu. System font across everything is Inter, and the terminal font is Special Elite.
Can’t really take a screenshot of my login screen.
…that’s just the default ubuntu greeter with a different background.
Indeed! Mostly cause I don’t really quite get how to replace the greeter. But I followed up with a separate comment written from my computer instead of my phone. :)
oh hey there we go! i recognise all the components and themes so it’s still familiar, but it’s unique which is nice.
if you really want it to feel like an alien os, give eagle mode a look. that one really wrinkles your brain.
🐢
might not be too good for turtles, no
Win 7’s interface was good for a number of reasons and that’s why my UI looks even more like it than the stock Cinnamon themes, which are already a deliberate rip-off.
If that makes people think me a psycho, so be it.
Well, does choosing Mint+Cinnamon for familiarity count?
meanwhile I’m over here making NixOS look like NeXTStep
I also tweak my Windows to mimic Linux
I call it OuroborOS
