Man I miss windows vista. It was peak windows design. I loved the glassy windows and buttons.
I miss Windows 7. The default wallpapers were a treat. I remember one that had like a flying turtle with a city on its back
I miss 3.1. the blue background was a specific blue and the gray taskbars were gray. What a wonderful time.
In all fairness, nothing beat Windows 8 on tablets. The touch controls were fantastic. Was disappointed when 10 got rid of them.
Oh for tablets it was fantastic. I'm mainly just speaking to the styling. I actually didn't mind windows 8 functionally
I mean, if you want to relive the glory days, here you go.
Reply here with a screenshot or PM me when you're done, please. 😁
In my experience Vista was the worst version of windows ever released. Glassy stuff looked cool but was a huge power hog. Thank god you could turn it off. And 10 feel horrible too (dont upgrade). It doesnt let you "ungroup" windows on the task bar. I prefer them separate and they just removed the option. Why? It was already there. It is a common preference of users. Best windows in my opinion was xp and 7.
I fully support this. You do you. It's your computer; you can do what you want with it. Whether you're using it for work or play, if it's the way you like it, then it's not wrong.
joking aside, windows 7 is by FAR the greatest looking version of windows. i’m probably biased because it’s the one i used during my formative years, but holy shit man everything from win8 and up just looks like complete soulless corpo garbage. that new shit looks like a free powerpoint template
Win7 was also the last "neutral" version of Windows in terms of integrated spyware ("telemetry") features (or rather, the lack thereof). Since Win8, this OS truly rolls downhill in many aspects. Since Win10, with greater speed.
Vista and XP were pretty baller. Really like the glassy look that Vista had, and it had video wallpapers built in. They were ahead of the game with ricing, and the transparency/glass is just now coming back!
As a new Linux user at the time. I hated the look of Ubuntu 09.04 - 10.10 compared to Windows, but the netbook couldn't run Windows for the life of it. I swapped back a more normal desktop around 11.04
b00merang have almost every single mainstream operating system as a downloable GTK/Cinnamon/MATE/Gnome theme.
I like the aero aesthetic tbh, especially the vista rendition.
It's heavy on GPU for sure; but it manages to pull off a relatively consistent look (or at least more consistent than anything that came after)
GPUs nowadays are orders of magnitude better than the ones during the era of Vista.
I see no reason why we can't have Aero everywhere, even on systems with integrated graphics.
As far as I know there is areo theme plasma. It seems a little rough around the edges but it's the best one I've seen so far. Pain to install imo though but it's a bit of fun I say
No worries :D. Sadly I don't think it has the best effect of the shine on the titlebars moving at a different rate to the window position like in 7 + vista. But damn its close. Hopefully it can get some more contributes someday.
Additionally just remembered this fantastic windows xp theme for xfce
ngl I actually really like that. the start button popping out over the taskbar is a nice touch. what's the setup?
You should join us over on the Unixporn community! Always fun to see peoples customizations lol
Windows 7 and Vista are beautiful. It is very sad that Windows 7 is dying. Hopefully someone can make a good theme that replicates it (I've tried some but they are not just right)
@fraenki @rcmaehl If you are a KDE user, these two are likely the closest option available to meet your needs....
I actually kind of like that.
I remember using Icewm and it had a theme that mimicked XP lol.
hey windows aero looked amazing, especially for its time, shame we dont get that option on modern windows but hey at least we're getting closer to replicating it on linux