Why is Windows XP the comfiest OS ever?
There's something about the way it looks, the simplicity and everything that makes it so soothing. Windows 7 tried throwing way too much eyecandy into our faces, and even making everything flat in 8 and 10 didn't help much.
What makes XP so comfy?
>>53760451
I can't bring myself to use XP.
It just reminds me too much of Elementary School, Middle School and High School.
>>53760451
>>53760474
Because most XP lovers used to be in their infant ages and grew up with it.
The biggest reason I cant stand XP is how tedious it is to search for files/programs. I lime being able to type 2 letters into the start menu and hit enter to load something. THAT is comfy.
>>53760509
I was six years old when XP came out. Before that, I watched my older siblings use 95 and 98. XP wasn't out in my infancy, but it still feels comfy as hell. It reminds me of my middle school years in the mid-late 00's the most.
>>53760509
Was about to post this, although I was in my early twenties in my XP stage.
>>53760451
Absolutely disgusting.
>>53760628
say that to my fucking face
It's not. Install PC-BSD.
>>53760451
It's just clean and worked great at all times. I have Win10 now and the fucking computer starts up instantly after I click the shut off button. I figured out why it did that and it was because there was a new update. Even though I put it to auto update, I have to do it manually. You just didn't have any of that crap in XP. It just worked, at all times.
>>53760538
yup. Searching smokes going through menus, although if you do want to go through menus then the Vista style menu kinda sucks
Because it was perfect and came out around the time almost every household was getting a computer or multiple computers.
>>53760628
What'd you say, you little bitch?
It more pleasing than the solid colours of windows 8/10.
>No compositor
>Half-implemented userland
>PCI-E as an afterthought
>No resize and crop wallpaper
>Page fault in non paged area
>>53760451
My teenage years lived on XP. If it had 7s search bar and Windows update components, it's still in use today. I think 7 is a prettier XP and am content to use it but XP mode is never far away!
I liked XP but its aged like dog shit you might as well run Windows NT4 or 2000, too. Vista and seven were the first Windows OSes for the modern age.
Saturated colors, high contrast - and nostalgia factor due to the horrendic disaster Vista was from what we still have to recover due to fuck-up normies. Same goes with 7 versus 8 and 10 is basically "nothing is left from what was once great" as it is a rebuild of 8, which got rid of what we loved about 7 the most.
>>53761013
>worked great at all times
suuuuuuuuuuure....
>>53760451
>not Windows 2000
It's like you don't want to even digivolve into Nostalgiamon.
cuz it reminds you of when you were 10
win10 will be the comfiest for some 10 year old too
>>53760538
Back in the day I used a program called Launchy that let me do the same thing.
Also XP is the comfiest OS because it has theming that actually works and I could do this.
Vista had a nice look too, It's too bad it was a steaming pile of shit.
Had to use my 2004 XP machine (Dell Inspiron 6000) 0the other day to test my router with a hardwired connection to see if my WiFi was fucking up. All I did was run ping, still felt comfy as shit
It was light-weight. Basically, DOS with a graphical shell and a nice networking stack stolen from FreeBSD.
>>53760538
Search in XP was slower, but way more powerful with advanced search options, it's a wash in my opinion.
>>53760451
I have no idea but it really is. I miss it a lot.
I am moving over to Windows 10 next month but I really wish I were moving into a renewed Windows XP.
>>53761473
>XP
>DOS
uhh
>>53761365
it looks like a linux distro trying to be XP
>>53761384
did anybody actually use that feature? It was "ohh cool" for two seconds and then I never touched it
>>53761235
>win10 will be the comfiest for some 10 year old too
>>53760628
Thems is fighting wurds bruh
>>53761497
last windows to ship with a decent DOS "emulator", on more recent windows versions the ntvdm cant even do fullscreen...
Luna was a mistake.
Watercolor should have stayed.
3.1 was here, XP is small-time
>>53761188
nope, skipped right from ME to XP
deal with it
Linux or BSD with Calm Window Manager wins.
>>53760509
This. XP is pretty shit in terms of design functionality and efficiency
>tabs tabs tabs tabs tabs everywhere even if they don't belong just throw in some tabs
>everything buried in settings
>slow as FUCK search indexing
But I grew up with XP so it's still comfy.
>>53760451
YOU ARE WRONG
W R O N G
WINDOWS WHISTLER WAS THE PINNACLE OF WINDOWS DESIGN
THIS IS NOW A WHISTLER THREAD
It reminds anons of when their life used to be happy, as a carefree kid who still fit right in with his peers. Until, well...
>>53760451
How is it comfy? It's outdated. I can make linux look just like it, Not that i would.
True maximum comfort trio coming through
Because soft gradients, smooth shadows, and colorful icons. Also big fat bars and buttons. This is the real reason.
Now everything is flat and cold
>>53762025
>Whistler is becoming the new /vistagen/
I love it
>>53762100
15 years later and literally 1000x the performance later, my computer barely does anything more than then
WHISTLER IS THE COMFIEST OS
THEY SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH WATERCOLOR
>>53762025
>>53762327
I loved the "classic theme" on winxp
>>53762327
Go to your designated shitting street, Paul.
>>53762100
>BeOS
I didn'r ask for feels.
>>53761188
>digivolve into Nostalgiamon
Kek
>>53761548
It lags like shit.
I never actually used it because it's too disorienting.
>Get given a oldass toshiba with a atom cpu running xp
>runs perfectly
Oh god them xp feels
Looking back at it, I now realize that XP was way worse than windows 7. Especially that ugly, nonfunctional explorer. Also, the colour scheme was horrendous.
>>53764199
its also laggy as all shit.
windows 7 and up is instant
>>53762327
>>53762100
>>53762025
>>53761883
good taste detected
Microsoft actually had decent UX guidelines with XP, it's sad they don't follow them anymore.
>>53761883
Agreed. I always used the classic theme in XP, Luna was just plain ugly.
>>53761188
I know. I liked the Windows 95 look and 2000 had the stability of NT.
>>53760451
Because your brain sucks at adapting to something newer and better, gradma.
>>53761188
what film is this from?
Win 98 is the comfiest desu
>>53760451
unstable piece of shit, if you used it for anything else than solitaire
>>53760451
>Why is Windows XP the comfiest OS ever?
Because nostalgia.
That Emily Is Away game ruined winxp for me.
>>53760451
Ow ma gawsh this site is full of fuckin nerds !!! Go get laid u losers haha
>>53765078
ecks dee
>>53760497
did they abuse you much?
>>53761188
>not 2003
>>53761188
Is he going to blow him afterwards?
>>53760451
Not really. It was always ugly as shit.
>>53761548
I used it all the time actually. Partly because it looked cool, but I do think it was actually better than the usual alt-tab. Shame it isn't in Win 8 and 10 anymore because of MUHHH FLAT DESIGN.
I hated XP when it came out, everyone in the computer shop I worked in did. We installed it only at the customer's request, otherwise we stuck with Windows 98.
Until service pack 1 came out.
SP1 changed EVERYTHING. I mean, it all looked pretty much the same but stuff now WORKED, it was faster, smoother, drivers worked better, against all odds backwards compatibility got better, games worked better, it was incredible.
I was experimenting with Linux when XP first arrived, when SP1 came out I went back to windows because it was nicer to use.
I miss XP, it werked, but on modern hardware it just can't compete (3.5gb REEEEEE) and the 64bit version was unusable. I held out until 7 arrived. Windows 7 was like coming home one day to find someone had broken into your house, redone the wiring, replaced all the windows with double glazing, replastered, painted, and put in new carpets in tasteful shades, and alphabetized your CD and book collections, and at the same time converted the bare slab of unusable concrete in your garden into an extra room for your house.
>>53760451
>>53760474
or you know it could be nostalgia
>>53766160
No, it's not. Some of the actually useful software only works on XP, so it is often needed to virtualize it. Wangblows is supposed to be backward compatible and shit, but that does not what actually happens sometimes
>>53760451
le fisher-price OS :^)
>>53765986
this is pretty accurate
>>53766225
yeah also it's compatibility with dos and win 9x software, that's why i use it for games
>>53766236
>what is classic theme
>>53760628
>>53760451
Millennium was my favourite.
I can't trust a OS that doesn't freeze from time to time.
>>53763921
>B-B-BU-B-BUH-BUT-BUT
LOL OKAY
Win95 or die
Why did M$ decide to kill the Windows startup sound?
They got rid of it in 8 - 10.
It was one of the comfiest parts of using Windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Ak5VgyEoc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tajDxBaPBBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFkry3zzutI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2oiVqKHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=095XUlKnQSY
>>53766742
A E S T E T I C S
>>53766742
don't forget the alternate windows 2000 sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDq9e4Qv2F8
I only liked the icons.
just leaving these here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBJEIHCA4_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf7lybT9Y0o
>>53766742
There's just
something about the win98 intro
Why not just fork it off and keep the dream alive? You all have the source right?
>tfw no more comfy bsods
I think old Windows desktops look bad. Not comfy at all. Corners are too sharp, some icons or buttons are uncomfortably small and I don't enjoy the office gray colors either. I like modern desktops more, not only Windows but things like Ubuntu and maybe OS X too. Windows 7 was a lot comfier to look at than XP. I used both and was thinking right from the start that "This version is an improvement with no downsides".
>>53761097
There's an unofficial SP4 that fixes a ton of things and the user behind it made sure it's secure, it even supports 8 gig + ram :^)
http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10321
>>53761548
Reminder: Windows key plus tab.
>>53766946
Replaced by this. :/
>>53760451
This one is better
>>53768394
oh the memories :)
>>53761384
>>53761548
>>53764182
Vista works pretty well now if you install all the updates
>>53765673
>but muh x64 xp no drivers
I used that one, it was good
>>53760628
I agree
>>53768394
>comfy like a caveman's home
>>53760451
before the internt was full of normies
just werked
no spying
actual backwards compatilbility
>>53760451
imho, 7 is, but the argument holds true:
because it is from before they decided to fuck their perfectly valid, copied-by-everyone, productivity-inspiring, getting-out-of-the-way-and-just-werk UI for no apparent reason whatsoever.
i pity microsoft. i never really liked windows, simply because it's so closed down and unfriendly towards systems developing, but i used to envy windows users for their beautiful and functional GUI that gnome and kde were badly copying. then OS X came along and became popular and suddenly it seemed like everybody went "SHITSHITSHIT CHANGE SOMETHING MAKE IT MORE MODERN IT NEEDS TO APPEAL TO STUPID PEOPLE SHITSHITSHIT AND ALL THIS TOUCHSCREENY STUFF WHATDOWEDO AAAHHHHH" and that was when win8 happened, and gnome and unity soon followed suit. didn't do them any good though, everybody fucking hates it.
tl;dr - because most functional, simple UI ever and then they fucked it for no reason.
If drivers existed for the 64-bit version of XP, there is no way I would ever use anything other build of windows.
The original mallard theme is pretty meh, the only difference between mallard and the classic theme is the titlebars and the panel at the bottom basically.
The custom "watercolor" theme looks nicer, IIRC there were some strange things in the original "watercolor" theme.
There is some serious hardcore nostalgia for XP here. I would wager most people have misplaced nostalgia for XP for a variety of reasons.
>before release
2000 was the business OS and DOS based windows in the form of Windows ME was what most consumer shit shipped with. Most people going to ME came from 95 or 98 with a lot of DLL hell. ME tried to do too much new shit at once and introduced a lot of new code (e.g. system restore) that led it to be super unstable. 2000 was pretty polished by XP's release.
>XP comes out (late 2001)
Everyone ridicules the look and the bloat saying the new features don't really merit it. A lot of people hate mandatory online activation, hate the "fisher price" theme, and the amount of bloat compared to 2000, which can run most of the same software.
>XP struggles as longhorn falls behind
As more and more people get online XP becomes more and more vulnerable. No firewall was included until SP2, and no antivirus. It was like swiss cheese from 2002-2004. You had to buy an aftermarket firewall and had to run antivirus and even that might not be enough to save you from automatic infection.
>SP2 release (Aug 2004)
XP starts to hit its stride as hardware has largely caught up with its requirements and much needed improvements (built in firewall, much better wifi support, ad blocker, some bluetooth support, a lot of security hardening, etc.)... at this point XP starts to get comfy for a brief time. Meanwhile the Longhorn project is a disaster and is scrapped for a much less ambitious project.
>Vista release
Microsoft knows that the improvements in Vista will require more hardware for machines to function, particularly the Aero 3D shit. OEMs resist and beg microsoft to lower the requirements. They keep the previous minimum requirements as "Vista Premium" and make a much lower end of requirements "Vista capable". When Vista releases in early 2007 it runs like dogshit on 80%+ of the computers it ran on. Microsoft made other mistakes on this too
>>53768733 (cont'd)
>Vista release (continued)
Microsoft allowed kernel patching in 32-bit windows still and also allowed unsigned drivers on 32-bit windows. Combine that with major kernel and driver model changes and OEMs being lazy pieces of shit and you end up with a highly unstable piece of crap.
Meanwhile XP is well understood at this point and even budget laptops ship with enough hardware to easily perform well with XP. SP3 ships in later 2007 making it even more attractive...
>Microsoft gets their shit together (2009)
Microsoft ups the requirements for Windows 7, OEMs get time to understand the changes in NT6 and up (Vista) versus 5.1 and below (XP), more machines ship with 64-bit windows which requires driver signing for quality by Microsoft and blocks direct kernel patching. Microsoft trims the fat and changes the theme enough to distinguish it from Vista and releases 7 to the world in 2009 to widespread acclaim.
>XP rides out comfy end of support
Most basic tasks can still be accomplished by XP and software makers continue to support XP due to widespread use. One part of this is that volume licensing on Windows XP doesn't require occasional activation checking and is harder to deactivate generally, making it popular among pirates.
>Win8 just fuck my shit up
Microsoft gets into iPad hype and apps at the expense of overall desktop usability and banking on a convergence of tablet and desktop that never happens, getting a bad rep again. Those on XP think "if it ain't broke don't fix it". Those on 7 largely think the same.
>present
XP left support in 2014. If you had anything other than very old hardware it was already showing its age substantially before this point. 7 is a better bet and is equally comfy to XP. Windows 10 has privacy concerns for some but a longer support lifecycle (although debatable things e.g. mandatory patching in home editions).
>>53768815 here (last bit)
I would say 7 has been more comfy overall throughout its support lifecycle than XP was. XP had a brief time from 2004-2008 where it was more comfy than Vista in a majority of cases. Whereas 7 has pretty much run comfy from inception to present and still runs pretty much anything well.
>>53768481
Really? Thanks senpai, I'm gonna do this for a friend's dell, I used a preloaded Vista and gonna install office 2010, is that possible?
>>53767472
Thanks! Discovered Magnifying shortcut Win + | + or - | activates it.
>>53768833
>tfw Windows 7 + Office 2010 + Visual Studio 2010
Comfy as fug especially with some of the old features MS stripped out with Windows 8 like Microsoft Games.
Only problem is all my software EOL's in 2020.
>>53762004
XP had tabs...? I don't remember this, Windows has never even had tabs in its UI - the Opera web browser pioneered the concept I believe
>>53769382
I think he means taskbar tabs, which you can tweak to do a repeat all over again.
Anyways, Clover 3 extention fixes this problem in most Windows without footprint (except Windows 10 which somehow messes up interface icons, I assume the Korean author of the code will fix it. It's awesome for Windows 8.)
>>53769300
I took space pinball and used it in windows 8, did I do well senpai?
>>53762100
>16 years later gahnoo + loonecks still looks like the same steaming pile of shit
Freetards will disagree.
>>53762100
Sweet, first looks real neat, beautiful interface.
Second, too cold and corporative, but nostalgic.
Third looks like a child's playpen (demos, and panda thing, whatever it is) mixed with a bit of serious edgyness.
>>53769382
In preference panes and other related UI elements yeah
>>53765611
I go on /g/ every day. What do you think.
>>53760451
Its only comfy because it's all you millennial fucks know.
>>53760451
Pls nigga
>>53768394
u wot m8
>>53760451
Is there anything I can do with XP today? I have it in vbox and I want to "test" some obscure malware and stuff...where do I find these file?
>>53760451
mfw no default drivers for anything
>>53770843
Just go to google and type in 'free drivers' and start clicking away
>>53760451
Why the fuck did they abandon the optional "classic" theme? That shit was the best, I want the classic theme in W7+
>>53770514
this so much
>>53768394
>doesn't even have copy/paste hotkeys
>>53770500
>Implying
...Well, life abused me in a sense also, but I abused back, kek, so it was a mutual abuse. Praise Gaben
I never and still don't find it comfy.
I disable the shit style it has and replace it with a nice flat one I designed.
The theming system in XP was a fucking dream to use.
>>53768815
Technically XP still has support through PoS version.
At least, I think it does.
>>53769382
Of course it had tabs. (not that it was meant as those tabs)
XP got IE5, 6, 7, 8.
>>53772044
Windows Embedded Extended support ended earlier this year. Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 support ends April 9th, 2019, but that's a niche application not generally available to most people.
>>53771015
If I recall correctly, the classic theme is rendered entirely in GDI, which means a window must be repainted whenever you switch to one that wasn't visible before. It also forces all GPU acceleration off. For that reason, on Windows 8 and above disables classic theme.
>>53770843
There's a free Windows XP Mode, (As explained in Howtogeek, take the file from the installer.) You need a = Computer fast enough to run two (64 bit)
http://searchvirtualdesktop.techtarget.com/definition/Windows-XP-Mode
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002
(Download the one with the H tag in the .exe file.)
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12183/how-to-run-xp-mode-in-virtualbox-on-windows-7/
http://www.howtogeek.com/171395/how-to-get-windows-xp-mode-on-windows-8/
>>53760451
Because you set the resolution to 800x600.
>>53772149
The H tag one = No windows media player (anti trust campaign in europe.)
>>53770843
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/windows/ Download any machines for any VMs/OS. Expires in a month though.
>>53772174
Generate a key? Patch Win Xp to run without the WPA?
>>53772200
I have no clue what it would take to "crack" one of these pre-built images to run longer than 90 days. Presumably there is some way to do so.
Arch plus cinnamon is much comfier
>>53770580
Understatement, WinXP is easy to virtualize, and you can put and reverse any infection, perfect sandbox to study registry messing and temp file exploits by malware.
>>53762100
Every user interface should look like OS9. I'm so fucking salty that nothing modern looks like that.
Everything looks like glossy pastel candy crap.
>>53760451
Ok, this is now a XP wallpaper thread !
>>53772287
>>53772308
Personally I find the glassy and "fade in fade out" look of Windows Vista and 7 to be gorgeous, the peak of Windows design. 8 was eh and 10 is sort of getting there. Its just hard to make solid color titlebars look good though.
>>53772380
Ok, I don't have so many wallpaper actuallu, so let's end with a BSOD.
>>53772421
I ended up using a custom theme on 8.1. It's that bad. Classic theme on Vista/7 because the always-red close button pisses me off.
>>53761188
But that's KDE, Izzy wouldn't waste his time with Windows.
>>53760451
couldnt be bothered installing xp so i just themed win10
>inb4 botnet
it's enterprise with spyware disabled
>>53760451
because it's the OS we've used the longest
>>53772226
Aren't they some average Windows XP?
Maybe they have an alternate new protection scheme?
>>53772577
Did you take out telemetry and all that nonsense?
Good luck taking out the seekrit stuff.
>>53772467
Izzy drinks too much water bottles, that was the meme back then, dehydrated by extrenous computer use.
>>53760538
And fucking windows 10 removed that
>>53772308
Kek, pre-edgy edgy masterpiece.
>>53772847
what, I was going to install enterprise but this is retarded..........well........actually I never liked the feature when searching for files, programs and control panel functions is fine but, I wish I'd be able to decide which one works.
>>53761609
If you use XP drivers on Windows 7 32, NTVDM still does full screen
>>53772577
what are the best ways to theme botnet 10 anon?
the vanilla appearence is starting to bore the shit out of me.
>>53772789
Why don't you download it and look? I have leftover XP keys so I don't need to fuck with this.
>>53762025
Let's be honest, Watercolor wasn't production ready. They should have shipped with something like this.
>>53772986
I haven't even tried W10 and it's boring me already.
The only thing that excites me it's how my friend tells me it's become way more efficient running programs by some well usage of processing power, not sure how he explained it a few months ago but he says it's incredible that they finally did something right about the slowdowns, considering Runescape will not run well on another friends PC, other programs working together might.
>>53773013
Woah, you have official left over XP keys? Man, I'd tap one of they, I'll get one eventually regardless.
I always liked windows 2000
>>53773040
Oh snap, I want that theme, I forgot the name of the patcher to allow windows xp to accept custom themes, can you remind me the name for an updated version for SP3 or such?
>>53768733
yeah when Vista was released 1GB of RAM was a mid PC or high-end laptop lol
>>53760451
Because it's the one you grew up using
>>53773090
http://uxstyle.com/
>>53768815
totally right on win8, it's so bad lots of people downgrade to 7 when they buy new pcs
>>53766946
>comfy bsods
That shit is not comfy, at all.
10 IS GOOD YOU FAGGOTS! JUST TRY IT!!
>>53773257
>anything about Windows 10 being good
>especially the fucking bastardization of a UI
>>53773121
Thanx Zenpai.
>>53773279
The only thing I found good about the Windows 10 UI, is the Enterprise one is almost XP like in all sense, it's the one they should have released to the public, insanity I say.
>>53772110
You know there's a dirt simple way to patch XP to accept POSReady patches, right? I've been patching an XP virtualbox with them for months now and so far no problems.
>>53773362
Enjoy your false sense of security. What's so hard about installing POSReady 2009? I've got it on a UMPC, netbook, and run it in my Windows VM
>>53772110
>>53773362
Might as well install the real thing.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/6/636E5B38-EA04-4F25-A059-CA6EDF773F79/POSready2009_CD.iso
>>53773362
2019 support doesn't sound bad at all, considering you can patch for it, not that I'd use XP for anything that's online, or 8 or 10, no choice in my case that my laptop's under warranty with 8.1, I'm giving it a chance for it to almost expire and probably send it in for repair or exchange, cauze I did not like it, it's an HP Envy clone with intel processor, I can't deny I liked the hardware a bit even though it was a huge mistake to buy it.
>>53773416
Don't have any CD keys for it, too lazy to crack.
>>53773494
You don't need to crack it. Just google posready2009 key and choose one at random
>>53773531
Seriously? Feel like I'm getting rused here.
>>53773555
Dead serious
>>53773555
Not that anon, but the authentication in that version is just that easy to overcome.
It was a simpler time.
Back then you bought a screen per application you wanted to run.
Colors were bright and childish because microsoft knew only people who played games wanted to use it over 2k.
It got out of the way, so people didn't care that it was insecure or the window manager was so bad people went back to using a tiling window manager.
I hated it then and it is not better now that time has passed.
Still better than the newer windows versions though.
>>53773416
So, what am I downloading exactly? heh I know it's a windows xp iso, and I know it's 2009 updates, but please do elaborate.
>>53773646
Wowee, so, is this a core user edition?
>>53762025
High five, sir.
>>53773555
checked
>>53762283
Your computer now has animations and colours.
What? You think we'd let you keep using old hardware? Go shopping, goy.
>>53773684
You've answered your own question
>>53773703
It's pretty much XP with a much more modular wizard installer. If you don't believe me just check any video about the installation. It even has the same number compilation as the regular XP.
>>53773736
>posready2009 key
Yeah, some other posts answered what I was wondering on it's activation, still, IS it core user?
Still use it with office 2003 on UNI computers. The professors won't use 2007. or any newer office
>>53773753
I don't know what core user is, it's a Windows XP version meant for cash registers and other such devices.
>>53762100
You know what I notice about this era of OS? How dense they are with information. I really with this would come back. I prefer the harsh straight edges and 'flat' colors to how they keep trying to make the GUI look 3D.
>>53760451
>He fell for the windows XP meme
Grow up and get a real OS like Windows 10
>>53766874
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIA0kaGFIhQ
>>53773786
I might give some use for it, I use windows to slack off and write a ton of shit, this one might be with less bullshit involved, I'm pretty sure this version is as equally as good as a professional edition.
>>53773831
why?
>>53773887
Why so magical PS1 intro, and PS3, why you so suave open sequence saying a warning?
>>53766841
Sounds like it could be playing over a fantasy point 'n' click.
Like Longest Journey or Syberia.
>>53773753
It is basically your typical Windows XP SP3 iso. Just with some things that you can add at the beginning, but everything else is the same.
>>53773831
>Implying Win XP isn't manly in it's own nature and Win 10 is a piece of shit.
>>53773887
>tfw I used to have Windows 8 configured to play the PS1 boot sound upon boot and play the game boot sound when I logged in
>>53773964
isn't*
>>53773975
Do you remember how to do it? Was there a tutorial?
>>53773999
All I did was convert the sounds to the proper format (iirc it was wav but I'm not positive) and replaced the stock files
>>53760451
Because most likely you grew up with it
It was the longest supported windows version after all
>>53773829
>>53762283
You know what I don't get? Why computers stopped being utilitarian.
It's like...People don't put touch screens in cars for the blower, because a knob you can turn blind is functional.
We need to go back to treating the OS as just the medium that displays the things you want, and not part of the "experience."
Also I'm sure that there's more hardware/network (graphical) utilities in a fucking Apple OS from that System 7-9 era than in a modern Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint.
I know there's SuSE, but that has it's own share of troubles.
>>53772308
Top fucking kek
ahh good old daze...
>>53760451
Windows XP is still botnet.
Go Win 2000, since it's not phoning home.
I think I'll upgrade to server 2008 when updates for windows vista end
>server 2008 is based on vista, 2008 R2 on win7
>security updates for both until 2020
>>53774183
>Zune theme
My nigga, best theme ever.
>>53761883
I like the green variant best.
Shame that the scrollbar is hard to see.
Also post cool XP themes.
>>53774307
>post cool XP themes.
This is the embedded theme
>>53774128
>>53764199
Explorer is shit, yeah.
TotalCMD for life.
XP Beta
>that taskbar
>those icons in explorer
>>53760451
I honestly like the look of 95/98 and 7 better.
>>53772308
xaxxles
>>53772847
There's still a search on the taskbar, even after disabling cortana. I did like the 7 having it in the menu better. About to install that one program to make it 99% like the 7 menu.
>>53768815
Pretty sure telemetry and shit has been added to 7 through updates now.
>>53774795
Why is there one red window in each screenshot?
>>53774832
All inactive windows get a red border
>>53760451
>800x600
>comfy
2560x1440 or get out
>>53774128
Because it has to look "good" in screen shots.
Efficiency be damned!
Besides, if it didn't have all the bloat for animated, shadowed and transparent windows, people would start asking why they need such huge specs to run it well. So because something does exactly the same as a program that ran on a machine with 100mhz, only now it animates and has a shiny topbar, that it needs a 2ghz quad core is fine.
Also now things are all controlled from the thing that's being controlled, so the need for a utility screen is gone.
>>53774854
But the other inactive window has a blue border
>>53774875
Yeah, I noticed it too now
I guess the window is red because you can't access it right now (have to close the window before it first)
>>53774183
I remember when that theme came out, I was the first to install it and when i showed my friends my desktop they thought i was the elite hacker known as 4chan.
>>53773303
I wish I could use Windows 10 Enterprise "No ads/spyware" Edition
>>53774795
>>53768394
>>53766700
>>53762100
I really like this pixelly and flat icon and window border. I should nostalgia for XP (since that's the generation I'm in), but this style just seems to look clearer even though they're lower res there's a lot of information in them, with there not being any doubt what they do.
>>53774937
Nothing's stopping you
Just go to mydigitallife
>>53774937
Windows 10 is taking over now, Pretty soon it will assimilate 7 and 8 completely.
At least it's a rolling release though so it's the last windows disc you will ever have to buy.
>>53771647
What?
>>53774995
Many people don't want to upgrade
And why the fuck would you BUY windows 10 anyway
>>53775018
Doesn't matter what they want, Windows 7 and 8 are in auto upgrade mode now.
I had the pleasure of using XP recently.
Personally, it's not the UI design. That's nostalgia speaking - it only really looks good on pictures.
It's the fact that whatever menu you open - be it context menu, control panel or whatever:
It has exactly the things you want. No more. No less. It's there, plain, simple, one click away.
That coupled with razor-sharp responsiveness (XP + core2duo beats modern windows + modern cpus in responsiveness. Where's your god now?) make me so sad that this wasn't the direction windows in general went.
Fug normies, they ruin everything.
We did conclude M$ went this direction because PCs became mainstream, right?
Still, I'll stick to newer windows personally.
But the fact that there are still aspects in which XP absolutely dominates modern windows is speaking volumes.
>>53775112
>XP + core2duo beats modern windows + modern cpus in responsiveness. Where's your god now
That's partially because the XP GUI is hardware accelerated, the newer versions only are if you enable aero. And even then only the effects are accelerated, not the whole UI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zzKDHHevxs
>>53775112
>We did conclude M$ went this direction because PCs became mainstream, right?
PCs were "mainstream" even before XP. Every school, office, library and very large amount of houses, had some form of computer even in the late 90s.
What caused this downward spiral is Apple going LOOK AT ME with OS X's shiny animated shit, then Microsoft going NO LOOK AT ME with what happened from then on.
Also Apple starting the JUST WORKS shit, which while being good, isn't how it should be. It should be that it doesn't just work, bit getting it to work is simple and straightforward, even more so with help from a manual (remember when computers came with huge printed manuals telling you how to use it?).
Basically Apple acted like a retard to try get people to pay attention to it, and rather than just ignore it and continue to be a computer, everyone (even Linux, look at GNOME and KDE now and then) starting spazzing out more and more to get people to pay attention to them.
>>53773960
It's actually missing a lot of stuff. It's more like official nlite'd XP
>>53760474
>There's something about the way it looks
You mean how it looks like a fisher price toddler toy?
XP has always looked like absolute shit with the default look
>>53762100
Am I retarded or does this style of GUI actually look better than what we have now?
They're always soo... Small. Like needing to fit it in to a small resolution they made it so it was clear enough to show everything at once.
It's like as if they, when they actually did get a large standard res, they just blew up what they had and it ended up all warped and fucked up.
>>53763958
At least there's Haiku.
>Alpha4 is now over 3 years old...
Damn...
>>53775563
Yeah, KDE 1 and 2 were pretty good
You can still get Trinity (KDE3) to look like pic related
>>53775755
I wonder what the system usage of Trinity is like compared to MATE or XFCE. It would be nice to get a fully featured DE on a Pi.
>>53760628
This. 2000's UI was GOAT.
>start to shutdown
Windows was a mistake
- Bill Gates
>>53775848
Agreed. It was a UI for businessmen doing serious work, not children being faggots.
I am still pissed that they deliberately killed it off in Windows 10.
>>53760451
because most of us grew up on it
>>53776001
Well It's been maimed since vista anyway.
>>53776001
I don't think it's so much that it's for business, it's more that there was a change in the thought process of how a computer operating system should relate to the user.
Up until 2000 there was a sense that the OS has a job to do, and it's not meant to be pretty. The pretty stuff is what you're doing with it. It's meant to stay out the way (both on the screen and in terms of resources used) as much as possible.
All that changed in 2001 where we got both XP and OS X, both a bad sign of things to come in their own way.
>>53776104
OS X was a step in the right direction at least, too bad its design peaked 8 versions ago
Windows 2000 is best Windows
>>53778181
Sorry, I couldn't hear you over WINDOWS WHISTLER.
>>53775825
Why dont you try it?
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Preliminary_Stable_Builds#Raspbian
