I miss the old windows colored bubbles, where your screen was still visible and the bubbles just moved around on top of everything.

I think it was from 7. In 10 they changed it so there was a black screen with the bubbles. Not nearly as much fun (I do zero secure things on my home computers). They also seemed to churn more, like glass balls, rather than bouncing off each other like they originally did.

I’m not on windows anymore but man I do miss that one.

I think only ChromeOS' Exo and KDE's KWin (cheating, since its just the kde screen locker) are the only wayland compositors with screensaving functionality. Which is just a picture slideshow.

Seems like no devs want to reimplement screensavers that are not just pictures.

They are very much still kinda necessary. They prevent burn-in, which is still a possible issue on certain types of displays (like OLEDs).

Then again, even back in the hay day of screensavers you could have simply turned the monitor off and left the PC on. 🤷‍♂️

Eh. I'm fine with the screen just shutting off.

If my screen doesn't need saving, I'd like the clock on the lock screen to stay put.