• FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    joking aside, windows 7 is by FAR the greatest looking version of windows. i’m probably biased because it’s the one i used during my formative years, but holy shit man everything from win8 and up just looks like complete soulless corpo garbage. that new shit looks like a free powerpoint template

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      Win7 was also the last “neutral” version of Windows in terms of integrated spyware (“telemetry”) features (or rather, the lack thereof). Since Win8, this OS truly rolls downhill in many aspects. Since Win10, with greater speed.

    • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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      Vista and XP were pretty baller. Really like the glassy look that Vista had, and it had video wallpapers built in. They were ahead of the game with ricing, and the transparency/glass is just now coming back!

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      I feel like Windows 7 fills the sweet spot between the seemless UI of the 2000/XP era and newer versions. Windows 10/11 could top that list if Microsoft had bothered to create a proper UI instead of just slapping some material design on a handful of apps, while everything else is still basically 2000/XP. Then again, GTK2/3/4 can be almost as bad.

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    Man I miss windows vista. It was peak windows design. I loved the glassy windows and buttons.

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      I miss Windows 7. The default wallpapers were a treat. I remember one that had like a flying turtle with a city on its back

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      In my experience Vista was the worst version of windows ever released. Glassy stuff looked cool but was a huge power hog. Thank god you could turn it off. And 10 feel horrible too (dont upgrade). It doesnt let you “ungroup” windows on the task bar. I prefer them separate and they just removed the option. Why? It was already there. It is a common preference of users. Best windows in my opinion was xp and 7.

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        It doesnt let you “ungroup” windows on the task bar

        Sure it does. Right click the taskbar, go into the Taskbar settings, and there’s a dropdown called “Combine taskbar buttons” with an option to never combine.

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    1 year ago

    Sounds nice for somebody that likes windows 7 and don’t want to use obsolete system kek

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    1 year ago

    I like the aero aesthetic tbh, especially the vista rendition.

    It’s heavy on GPU for sure; but it manages to pull off a relatively consistent look (or at least more consistent than anything that came after)

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      GPUs nowadays are orders of magnitude better than the ones during the era of Vista.

      I see no reason why we can’t have Aero everywhere, even on systems with integrated graphics.

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    I actually kind of like that.

    I remember using Icewm and it had a theme that mimicked XP lol.

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    Windows 7 and Vista are beautiful. It is very sad that Windows 7 is dying. Hopefully someone can make a good theme that replicates it (I’ve tried some but they are not just right)

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    I fully support this. You do you. It’s your computer; you can do what you want with it. Whether you’re using it for work or play, if it’s the way you like it, then it’s not wrong.

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    1 year ago

    hey windows aero looked amazing, especially for its time, shame we dont get that option on modern windows but hey at least we’re getting closer to replicating it on linux

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    Totally get it! Windows 7 looked/looks amazing! Personally I have an XP themed setup on my Ubuntu install. There’s just something great about old UI design.