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  • chasil 1 hours

    As Microsoft has expressed, Aero is "cheesy."

    Despite nostalgia, it was stripped in pursuit of a mobile-friendly UI (at the time).

    '...calling the UI that debuted in Vista and continued in Windows 7, “cheesy” and “dated.”'

    https://www.computerworld.com/article/1437474/microsoft-dump...

    All Windows UIs will die, on Microsoft's time, not the user community.

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  • userbinator 57 minutes

    Is Windows 7 "retro" now? I personally still prefer the Windows Classic theme.

    The logo looks like Firefox, Thunderbird, and a Charmander mixed together.

    edoceo 3 minutes

    Which classic? 3.0? 3.5.1? 4.0/95? Win2k? I think 2k was top-tier.

  • Tiberium 2 hours

    I'm surprised that this distro's headline is "The Windows 7 experience on Linux" even though it's using a vague Windows-style XFCE theme.

    If someone's interested in a real Windows 7 lookalike, take a look at https://gitgud.io/aeroshell/atp/aerothemeplasma, it's extremely close.

    See for yourself:

    - Kumander: https://www.kumander.org/img/images/kumander.png

    - AeroShell: https://gitgud.io/aeroshell/atp/aerothemeplasma/-/raw/Plasma...

    OsrsNeedsf2P 41 minutes

    AeroShell seems to only have full support on X11. Didn't expect this argument to come up again