If my OS doesn't sing to me when I start it, and play a farewell dirge when I shut it down, it can fuck right off.
The thing that really pisses me off is the flat design that is so popular now. It's so hard to tell when something is a button versus a label. I feel like I never know what is clickable or not.
the thing is that flat design is way more of a subtle art than skeumorphism, you have to really know what you're doing for it to work well.
With skeumorphism you just slap some shading on it and call it a day, for flat design you have to think about where things are placed and what precise colour they are compared to the background, which icons you use, etc etc..
Based and liking what you like pilled
xfce is the BEST DE
And combined with Xmonad is superb
POV good design
I unironically do hate modern UI. I'd love to be able to like windows 98-ify my OS.
Don't let your dreams be dreams! Just add XFCE :)
Oh my god.... Thank you. So much.
Don't tell them about tiling WMs.
honestly those can look really modern if you spend a hot minute configuring them
They're actually extremely modern, even unconfigured they're as far removed from standard point-and-click desktop UI as possible.
They're actually extremely modern even if you don't configure them at all, they're as far removed from 90s point-and-click UI as possible.
That's a fantastic recreation
its my daily driver now lol
Is LXQT or LXDE too modern for them?
Average ReactOS user (if there are any)
I would reccomend Sway, you can easily theme it to be retro style
Listen.. Trinity Desktop Environment, Q4OS. Perhaps with some of the XPQ4 themes (NT/XP/7/8/10).
In defense of xfce, it was my main DE for a few years and you can make it look pretty cool with a few CSS rules.
XFCE has convinced me to switch to Linux. Xubuntu has a nice elementaryOS-like theme by default and apps from the DE are extremely fast.
I really don't understand the hate it gets. Maybe because the defaults aren't that good?
It doesn't have so many essential modern features, kde has hdr, proper fractional scaling, mixed refresh rate displays and is much more secure thanks to wayland, plus the performance hit is tiny these days.
Please tell me you can share that amazing wallpaper.
Wait, you can spruce it up? I've been running it stock for a year now. The design grew on me because it was installed on all the old desktops in my highschool, and I've had it on my laptop ever since.
It's missing some stuff.
Pixels.
u can very easily theme plasma to be retro so im not sure why it an gnome are included meow.
post kinda smells of 4chan
Any examples of those themes?
