Windows 95 vibe
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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I legit ran no icons and single click mode to make my desktop look like a web page back when I was in high school.
Active desktop with google search in an iframe and a midi playing in the background was the way 😤
I remember installing a file run URL protocol for use with active desktop. Had fancy on hover icons for my programs. Would never install such a thing now.
Single clicks are superior and also more accessible. Just think about it why do you even need double clicks? KDE Plasma handles selection very well in single click mode, too. Once one experiences it, there's no going back to double clicking things like a cave person
I ran no icons in Windows 3.11 to save on system load time, and got used to it. I still run a plain black background with no icons, even though it probably doesn't save any time at this point.
Should just turn it into a list at that point.
From where did you get that sleek minimalist ui? /s
Windows 11?
Can't find time (or disk space) to install Linux
Especially time, dont believe the lInUx Is EaSy crowd. it is a learning curve if u want to do anything more than the most basic operations, and you can forget about most of the software you're used to.
I'm not saying it's easy and it does have a learning curve, however it's not so different than learning Windows from scratch. Once you get the basics and start to solve your problems on your own, believe me it becomes much more straightforward than Windows. Under the hood, Windows is a mess.
Yes but no. You'll be struggling to get things work or school expects you to run, gaming is a mess, and if you got the wrong hardware you can expect your OS to randomly give up because there is little support for anything that isnt linux specific.
Its good to get people into linux, but i dont like the dishonest description people use to sell it.
Can you tell me what part is dishonest and wrong? I didn't say something like "everyone should use Linux", I just said it's not so different if you learn it from scratch. Operating systems are tools, if you need Windows you probably should use Windows instead of expecting WINE to run them correctly, that's a waste of time. It's for people who are using only Linux. If you're curious you can always try dual-boot and see things for yourself.
For gaming, I've been playing Windows games on Linux exclusively for 4 years and there are only 2 games I still cannot run on my system, and I have 1000 games. Again, this is for people who choose Linux as their OS. If you want Windows games to run without doing extra things, you probably should use Windows. However, if you use only Linux, the gaming experience is pretty much great nowadays. Steam Deck is a good example.
Im talking more generally, people always claim its the greatest thing since sliced bread but it's just not. And i've been around the block many times, love linux on servers etc. Desktop is hell though.
I'm not saying it's perfect but I think it's the best for people's interest, as for privacy and security. Windows is getting more anti-consumer any other day, otherwise I have nothing against it besides this. If you need Windows, use Windows.
One "problem" with Linux desktop is, you can poke up every part of it. MacOS and Windows don't tend to break because they don't let you do this out of the box. If you don't meddle with Linux desktop, you won't break it as well. However most of the Linux newbies want to customize everything and it breaks naturally since they touch parts that they shouldn't. If you're learning, that's okay. If you're a standard user, you won't do that anyway.
I like my spaghetti code. That why I play EvE
Don’t forget though that Windows also have a learning curve. Only difference is that you’ve already been though the Windows learning process and are more than used to it.
Have you ever tried it before?
Just like my Steam games folder in 2024 😍
True. Whenever i want to create a game shortcut on steam its missing the icon... Weird
instead of putting google chrome into the recycle bit you could accedentally put roblox studio into the recycle bin
Some stuff still needs Google Chrome due to actual missing Firefox features; I don't have Firefox on my desktop because it's on my taskbar.
why not brave, why not ungoogled chromium, why not anything else?