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minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 months agoThe icons made your eyes twitch, but the Vista didn’t?
minus-squareDaGeek247@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoYou’re sure it’s not 7? I loved the glass that 7 had.
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoThe task bar on 7 Looked Way better
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoThe lesser of problems, I’d wager. Managed to bypass Vista… and 8. shudders
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoLol, dude should just slip in some skinned-up Linux Mint. Dad’s mind would be blown because OMG it’s so fast now!
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-28 months agohttps://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma (currently daily driving this)
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-28 months agoFunny, because this looks a lot like how Longhorn did/was supposed to. Very pretty for its time. Longhorn broke my heart, and I haven’t used Windows since (except to play Fallout)
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoAgreed, I am also a Longhorn enthusiast
minus-squaregregorum@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoBeta testing Longhorn, and it’s failure, just killed my last ounce of faith in MS. I went and bought a Mac after that, lol. TBH, being into Macs are what got me into UNIX and Linux, though, so that’s something.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-28 months agoA while back I wanted to make a Longhorn-style fork of Haiku (imo the sweet spot between windows and linux), although I ended up quitting because it was too much work Here are some mockups
The icons made your eyes twitch, but the Vista didn’t?
You’re sure it’s not 7? I loved the glass that 7 had.
The task bar on 7 Looked Way better
The lesser of problems, I’d wager. Managed to bypass Vista… and 8. shudders
Lol, dude should just slip in some skinned-up Linux Mint. Dad’s mind would be blown because OMG it’s so fast now!
https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma
(currently daily driving this)
Funny, because this looks a lot like how Longhorn did/was supposed to. Very pretty for its time.
Longhorn broke my heart, and I haven’t used Windows since (except to play Fallout)
Agreed, I am also a Longhorn enthusiast
Beta testing Longhorn, and it’s failure, just killed my last ounce of faith in MS. I went and bought a Mac after that, lol.
TBH, being into Macs are what got me into UNIX and Linux, though, so that’s something.
A while back I wanted to make a Longhorn-style fork of Haiku (imo the sweet spot between windows and linux), although I ended up quitting because it was too much work
Here are some mockups
