What’s wrong with wanting a UI you’re used to?
Everyone wants other people to switch to Linux until they do literally anything a purist wouldn’t do with their own personal setup 😅
Having grown up with a Mac before OS X came out, I liked that I could make XFCE look a bit more like OS 9, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable equivalent for kde yet.
I might give a Windows 7 theme a try. As much as I hate Microsoft, I’ve been feeling unusually nostalgic for 7. That one was kind of peak for gaming.
only for gaming compatibility
Well, first I tweak my windows to mimic the appearance of the windows that I liked, windows 7. Then I tweak my Linux to mimic that.
Just because hurr durr windows bad, doesn’t mean their huge team of UI and UX designers didn’t ever come up with a good design. And like most things Microsoft, I take pleasure in pirating it when I can.
Goddamn it I still miss 7
IMO, Windows’s UI/UX might seem good only if you haven’t tried anything actually different. Tiling/scrolling WMs is the way.
I do bind Ctrl-E for a new file browser and Ctrl-D to show desktop which I picked up from Windows.
Yes… but it’s really… WINDOWS 98.
Anyone with handwriting that meticulous is the real psycho
Where do I get my certificate?
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
I use KDE because it looks like Windows 10… also gnome feet.
Well, does choosing Mint+Cinnamon for familiarity count?
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 always loved the MacOS UI, so I emulate it in Linux. The visuals without the OS itself is just 👌
There’s nothing wrong with tuning your UI to match one you’re more comfortable with. Thats the beauty of Linux.
Being comfortable with something is overrated, try new things and see what clicks for you. I never understood the “it’s what I’m used to” thing, that just drives me crazy because you are so aware of the issues and there’s never any excitement and interest of discovery. And I don’t mean that you need to change everything all the time, I very much have specific things that I go to great lengths to have but I have those because I’ve found them and nothing else has come close to feeling as good.
I wish I could tweak Win 11 to look like Win 7. The only improvement since then was putting the Folder Up button back and adding tabs to Explorer, everything else is worse.
Exact same. That missing up button alone made me not like Windows 7, I didn’t realize how much I relied on it in xp. I have one pc that I keep Windows 11 on for work because there’s just too much niche software I need that only supports Windows, but everything else is Linux at this point.
There’s this project you could try in a vm https://classic7.lol/
