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[–] 59 points 2 days ago* (27 children)

Windows 8.. or Windows 11 😬

There is a scale of psychopathy...

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  • [–] 42 points 2 days ago (11 children)

    XP, though? Hell yeah. I still miss that theme.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Lol, I grew up with the 98se theme and xp theme, and at this point i just think they're both incredibly ugly. Peak windows desktop prettiness and usability was windows 7 for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Honestly, I think Windows 8 Beta's theme was the best looking (if you ignore the issues with the start screen): pairing Aero with the squared windows actually looked really good.

    That they not only removed Aero in the final version but also soccer their lawyers on anyone who tried to bring it back was just incredibly shitty on their part

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The Media Center theme was a nice twist on the default XP theme I'll admit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    I used Royale Blue for ages, it was super easy to find the installer for and was signed by M$ so needed no UXTheme patch.

    There was also Royale Noir and Royale Zune. Noir is a dark theme (Not to be confused with dark mode) and Zune, which was a different shade of black and sported an orange start button. Lastly there was also Royale Embedded which was a darker shade of blue, and had a blue Start button.

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    Honestly, 8 and 8.1 weren't bad visually (technically a whole different matter). I wouldn't mind making my WM resemble good old Windows 8, but actually has a sane technical base of Linux underneath it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    It was the one with the weird start menu wasn't it? Also wasn't it the one that they started adding the second duplicate ui in a half assed way?

    Like where they ended up with 2 control panels

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, Microsoft removed the Start Menu and added full screen tiles, that were widgets that updated with stuff (like news). I don't remember when the two 2 control panels things happened, Windows had always been a mess to me up to that point. It could've been sooner or later, because Windows was built with legacy support in mind.

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