• Marduk73@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    i used to tweak windows to look like Linux.

    you mean move the task bar to the side or top?

    yep. and a wallpaper too.

  • LucidNightmare@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I fucking love KDEs Windows 95 theming for some of the interface, while still looking sleek and fast as hell. That and the Plastik theme for the minimize, fullscreen, and exit buttons. :)

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I had to convince my cousin I bought him a Mac, but I didn’t want to support a Mac, so I tweaked KDE to look like OSX. He thought it was great how cheap he got a laptop, and was surprised Dell made Macs now. Had him fooled for about 2 years until he asked some kid to help him do something.

    I just shrugged and asked him if he’d have known if he hadn’t been told. Yah, cuz knows cows, not computers.

          • ikidd@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            I run Manjaro on about a half dozen systems for the last 5 or so years. I’ve had very few problems. I’ve used a lot of distros over the last 30 years, it’s been the least maintenance.

            There’s a lot of unfounded Manjaro hate on this site, probably by people that have never used it and just parrot the Manjarno narrative. It’s pretty sad to see how it gets maligned at every opportunity.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    On the contrary, if you do that, some users wouldn’t even notice they switched to linux!

    Or you can do a little trolling

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I am a fan of Vista, but 95 was my gateway drug to tech. I remember when I was like, 4? And I discovered that exes were like, huge! But lnks, tiny! Why do we have all these space-hogging exes anyway? Begone! Look dad, I saved us so much drive space! Why does nothing work now?

      And that’s basically been my method of learning ever since. How much can you really break, before it’s broken, and why? Let’s find out!

        • dan@upvote.au
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          2 months ago

          Vista did a bunch of great things… It added BitLocker drive encryption. It added the Snipping Tool for screenshots. It added a newer driver model that end up making drivers far more reliable than on Windows 9x and XP. It required drivers to be signed, which helps a lot with security. It added UAC, which was initially painful but also really helped improve security (no more running every single process with admin permissions). It moved C:\Documents and Settings\ to C:\Users so we didn’t have to type that long path any more. And probably a bunch of others I’m forgetting

          It was kinda half-baked at the time, but these are all major defining features of Windows. It just took a while for them to become stable.