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 π
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There is a heckuva lot to be said for the classic "start" category based app menu, tied to a task bar. XFCE, MATE, OpenBox, all draw from a paradigm established in the Windows 95 design.
Its not a bad design. Personally, I couldn't get used to anything else (and I've tried). My first PC had Win 95 and I'm now on a Plasma desktop.
Microsoft is doing a great job at completely crippling the fuck out of their start menu though, proving once again they have no idea what direction they're going in.
Linux Mint was designed to deliver a smooth landing from Windows, and if you're the type of guy to have a problem with it, then the entire FOSS communtiy is gonna have a problem with you, because you're making it harder for people to escape from corporate solutions.
Yeah gatekeeping is exactly how we get people to try Linux...
Ooh wait, that's the opposite.
Let people use Linux however they want. That's the whole point of the OS family, it's incredibly customisable
Thats fine its your linux.
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
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I frequently compare my XFCE setup to Windows 95. The job of an OS is to run programs.
I use Windows from Scratch. I built all the bloatware and telemtry myself, god damn it!
Always nice to come across fellow React developers!
I tweaked my KDE desktop to look like XFCE.
What does that make me?
KDFCE boy :)
That's my favorite comic strip
Now, now, are we talking windows 11 or XP?
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.
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Anyone with handwriting that meticulous is the real psycho
I tweaked to look like windows xp, loved the retro feeling
I like making mine look like "XP if I got to make it do what I want and have things like dark mode."
I just miss the era :)
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Well I use,
- META+E: Files
- CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: System Monitor
- META+I: Settings
- ALT+TAB: Switch Windows
Yeah I don't use Linux for the sake of it being different. Keyboard shortcuts are not what I dislike about Windows so why change muscle memory?
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I mean... I used to have a macbook with Linux inside customized to look like Windows π₯Έπ
only for gaming compatibility
I just want an icon only taskbar at the bottom and a Windows 7-like application launcher. Besides that it doesn't have to look like Windows at all.
But at least it's windows XP, right?
But many Linux DEs are made to be similar to Windows anyway. They are serving generally the same purpose of supporting the file/app world. It's about time we moved on to a more streamlined user friendly world. But people's lack of imagination holds us back.
I tried doing this at first, but i just kept being frustrated every time something wasn't like on windows...
Then i gave tiling managers (i3 specifically) a try...
Here I am now daily-driving Hyprland and writing custom ui with quickshell...
Yes... but it's really... WINDOWS 98.
AeroThemePlasma iykyk
W8 I get it.
So it like you used this service for long, then the one who responsible for the service sucks suddenly, the alternative of that service is somewhat close but not carbon copy of your service, apparently you can involve yourself in adjusting the alternative to your liking , it is optional but alass it is inevitable.
Welcome to the world of customization, customer.
They paid millions in user trails and data to get there and then did windows 8
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