What's the best looking OS and why is it windows 95?
Windows 98se
ChromeOS
>>53833355
still using classic theme on windows 7, feels fucking comfy
>>53833355
Windows 2K was better
I had 95, and then 98. Used 98 for a long time before switching to Vista. I never even used 7 outside of a VM - by then I'd switched to Ubuntu.
95 and 98 were the glory days of windows for sure
>95
>not 2000
>>53833355
The 2K/ME iteration looks way better than the 95/NT4 iteration, which was designed with the godawful 16-color VGA palette in mind.
>>53833798
>that start and shutdown sound
2000 was the shit.
Mac OS X 10.3
>>53833355
Nice vaporwave thread
Windows 2000 is the best desktop operating system ever.
If it wasn't deprecated, and could run modern software, I would be using it today.
>>53833836
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFkry3zzutI
dat feel
>>53833873
>he thinks his bubblegum keyboard is vaporwave
>>53833355
WinNT 4.0 - most stable version of Windows that ever existed.
>>53833915
95 is better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0
>>53833355
KDE2 was way better visually than Win95
I kinda miss Windows 95 with Plus!, KDE 1.X and old-school Gnome. Like the RH9 default look.
anybody got that win95 theme for win10? Anon posted it a few days ago
>>53833873
PUSSY DESTROYER
is there a way to run 95 on a VM?
>>53838796
Of course, just install it
>>53833355
because K.I.S.S principle
>>53833355
To be honest if we are talking GUI I say Windows 2000 would be it.
All Microsoft OS after that stopped being serious and started being "hipp" with green start button, Metro, calling programs for apps and so forth.
When working in Windows I prefer using the classic look.
In Linux I usually just go with dwm due to its simplistic look, and non-trolling feel that the modern windows GUI gives those days.
And if we are to mention Apple I have to admit their GUI is "more" serious then Windows, but I personally feel they are over thinking it a bit. And in general don't like working in it.
>>53833909
Windows 2000 was glorious, but in all fairness XP Pro was good too.
Unfortunately, the classic theme in Windows 7 doesn't look as good since there's still the Segoe UI font in use. Even worse, turning off ClearType and subpixel anti-aliasing makes every modern website look like ass, because they use fonts that require anti-aliasing. Whatever happened to web-safe fonts? Unique snowflake millennial web designers have a hard-on for shitty fonts and bloated slow jQuery-infested web designs.
>>53833355
Win2k all the way, still having a win2k dhcp box running in my network
>>53833682
This, I will never touch a newer windows if it doesn't have win98 theme
>>53834421
Xfce gets pretty close to both of those themes. I'd argue it can emulate Windows 98/2000 with 95% accuracy, especially if you get the theme packs out there. It does the XP themes well, too.
I know it has the old KDE window themes and GTK themes. I haven't tried those yet.
Win95's startup sound is pretty rad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0
>tfw Win10 abandoned startup sounds
>>53841321
>start so fast you can't even hear that shit
Who cares about shitty sounds, we aren't using a 386 anymkore
Windows XP startup sound is the most memorable one by far. That and the XP shutdown sounds are pretty much Windows essence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nQ2oiVqKHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2jGy76v0Y
>>53841328
>start so fast you can't even hear that shit
On an SSD, sure. Windows 10 is awful on an HDD. Fastboot helps, but not much.
>>53833480
why would a fox not use firefox os?
>>53841098
>dwm
hardcore m8
rip XP ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79oNuFPWkc0
BeOS is still the best looking.
Forgot to attach a screenshot.
It's actually IBM AIX with the CDE
I have a huge hardon for xfce
Nah.
>>53843496
>>53843555
comfy as fuck
>>53833355
I would say a combination of the Win10 and OS X 10.10.
But actually, I can't say any OS looks great. They're just catching up with the latest UI/UX advancements.
On the other hand, I bet it's hard to design an OS, because you have to cater to a very heterogenous public, which includes total noobs and power users, who are very fussy about what they like. So, it's hard to please everyone and structure the OS UI in such a way that it makes sense for both casual users and power users.
>postulating an initial open ended question then changing the question to one that seeks validation for your own opinionated answer to the initial question disregarding that the initial question is open ended and has no definitive correct answer
Either Irix, NeXTstep, or BeOS. Those are the purtiest.
>>53843555
rhapsody was even sexier, imo
I really like the look of BeOS, Windows 95 up until me, and NeXTstep.
