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Since Vista and 7 are EOLing very soon, lets hear your thoughts on Aero. Do you miss it or are you glad it's gone?
I remember I was a Linux user for years and had never really used Vista or 7 until our work PC's were upgraded from XP to 7 and I was just blown away by Aero. I think I spent 10 minutes just moving around the windows, looking at the glow of the dialog buttons etc. I eventually uninstalled Linux and moved over to Windows because after the experience Linux felt so cheap and shitty, haven't gone back yet.
>>53892880
it's good but i don't even use it
7 is GOAT. I've already disabled updates for months now. Going to use it forever. Vista was utter garbage. Whoever's still on it needs to reevaluate their life.
I don't like Aero but custom Themes for 7 exist.
I never liked transparency or even the plain 7 theme. I had the classic theme on Win7.
>>53892880
>very soon?
What? Aren't W7 updates scheduled to tend in 2020?
>>53892880
The Aero looks like like it was actually made by payed artists and not some indian shitters who drew the interface in powerpoint.
Aero is awesome.
After years and years of the Fisher Price look on XP Aero was like a bucket of water dumped on the head. Windows finally looked nice.
>>53893090
Yeah, 4 years. That's pretty close to soon, like xp would have been in 2010.
>>53892909
Same, who would even bother with 8 or 10?
I turned off Aero on my first day using Windows 7. I got over the fascination with shiny decorations after two months using Beryl.
>>53892880
I remember moving from XP to Vista. Aero was amazing.
>>53893602
If you're not worried about privacy, 10 seems like the way to go now when the anniversary update comes out (linux compatibility layer)
I didn't like it and I still don't. I even prefer XP's Zune theme over Aero.
"Aero" in Windows 8/8.1 is the best, Win 10 is too whitish.
>>53892880
>EOLing
So what? People can still use it.
Staying on topic, yeah, the first time I saw it I was amazed as well, I had never seen anything like it before.
but then my gpu went kaput and I had to downgrade to XP
>>53892880
Hated Aero from day one. Just about the first thing I disable to this day. I build productivity work stations, not eyecandy trip toys for underage faggots.
>>53892909
>Vista was utter garbage
Vista SP 1 >>>> Vista SP 2 aka 7
>>53894532
Good lord you sound like a joyless faggot.
>>53892909
Vista's color scheme and overall theme > 7
Vista is EOLing soon, April 11 2017
Windows 7 won't EOL for another 4 years
OP IS A FAGGOT
>>53892880
I got used to it. It had some bad design decisions that lead to funkiness (e.g. transparent window decorations required adding "smoke" behind text to make it stand out) but it's ok. The gr8 thing about it is the gpu acceleration which makes everything seems smooth as fuck on the desktop.
FOUR MORE YEARS
>Not using the Hotdog Stand theme
XP mustard race.
>>53892880
Aero was awesome, but I really love the w10 flat theme. I wish it wasn't implemented like literal shit. They should have kept there original start button and not made their os literal adware and spyware. Then it would be Goat.
Aero is one of the reasons I still use 7.
Seriously, why they had to remove it? It was so pretty.
Aero looks like utter shit. I'd much rather have a simple design with a flatter design.
>>53893602
8.0 > Vista SP2 > 7 > 8.1 > 10
Didn't include XP because it lacks SSD support. 8.0 is best because it has significant improvements (small but noticeable) over 7, and 8.0 is the last version before Microsoft went full NSA botnet.
Normies boohoo'd over 8.0, but honestly, just install classic start + classic shell and it's excellent.
>>53896369
Meant Vista SP1
>>53894624
This.
7 was the better OS, but vista had the best ui.
Aero is shit but at least it's better than the mess of a UI that is Windows 10
The best UI windows ever had
>>53892880
i'm more annoyed about the removal of the classic theme
>>53896369
Vista has no trim support, if you mean that by "SSD support". It does align partitions better by default (you can do that on XP too), but trim came to be in Win7 SP1.
>>53896408
Loonix fags are fucking dumb, I suppose people like you enjoy all the shit Mac and Aero rip off themes like KDE.
>>53896697
Windows 10 is beautiful.
>>53892880
>very soon
That's four (4) years of support for 7, probably even more after they extend it. 7 is barely at its half of its lifespan. And Aero is beautiful, I hate the flat looks
>>53896369
Are you retarded? How is 8.0 better than 8.1?
>>53892880
Awful. I reinstalled 7 recently and was reminded of just how ugly it is.
>>53898131
neck yourself
>>53898103
8.1 was basically a fix for normies because 8.0 was Microsoft going too far.
>>53898210
>a fix for normies
Ah, you're an inbred neckbeard that doesn't have a proper argument on how 8.0 beats 8.1 in any way.
Understood.
>>53892909
>Vista was utter garbage
If you consider Vista garbage, then you must also consider XP to be garbage
both were shit at launch, but eventually improved
Aero is fucking stupid. If just wastes processes on pretty effects.
On Win7 I just set it t classic theme. On Win10, I just disable transparency.
Is it possible to do _this_?
>>53898278
I heard that you are better off having aero on compared to windows classic theme as it is hardware accelerated. Is this true?
>>53898454
I tried to figure that out as well but what i found from googling was that it's most likely only available through custom skins
>>53894415
>So what? People can still use it.
Yep, I still have XP running on a machine for some dev with tools that aren’t yet officially supported by more recent OSes (and yes, it sucks that the developers of the said tools still won’t update them in order to get official support of newer OSes)
>>53898454
That's how it is on w10
>>53898103
How is 8.1 better than 8.0? Genuinely curious, as I opted to not update 8.0 to 8.1
8.0 has everything I need and works phenomenally.
>>53896999
>Windows 10 is beautiful.
A beautiful botnet is still a botnet.
Windows 10 does it better, just like everything else
>>53899197
Yup, it does literally everything better, including sending your photo album data to Microsoft's NSA department better than ever before.
>>53899209
I have nothing to hide, and if I can help bust those shady paedophiles I'm more than willing to do so.
>>53892909
Modt of the stuff you like about 7 comes directly from Vista. 7 is Vista with a facelift.
>>53899209
It doesn't do that unless you click on express settings like a retard.
>>53899197
Why did you change the Minimize,Maximize and Close buttons? Stock W10 ones look better with Aero IMO.
>>53892880
7 is bloated and slow. 8.1 is noticeably faster on the same hardware.
>>53899242
It's not about being better, it's about being different than default. I post in desktop threads.
>>53892920
Can you recommend me where to look for them?
>>53899309
Try deviantart
>>53899816
That's just for art. I want to change the UI to flat/minimalist
>>53899966
There are .zip files for windows 7 themes on deviantart.
>>53899979
I will look into it. Thanks, Anon
>>53899197
mfw folder
>mfw
>>53899996
It might not affect you whatsoever, but fyi you can't use virtualbox after a certain version if you use custom themes.
>>53900014
Aero sucked, used too much resources in the day. Now days i think its pretty good and i think it was way ahead of its time. One thing i hate about win 8 is that you cant install themes and they removed classic windows theme. However on 8 i tried to install a theme. It didnt work and it changed my highligh color to a nice green, guess they didny remove themes properly
>>53900015
I don't use it, Anon-san
>>53900066
>VLC
>no thumbnail for .webm
>>53899197
How do I do this? I thought aero was gone in W10.
I love it and I don't want to miss it, so I'm staying on Win 7
>>53899197
hey you riced that really well!
how did you get these nonshit icons and aero?
please teach me, sensei.
>>53900449
Same but im on windows xp.
>>53893350
>payed
>>53900449
>use win7
>try and make it look like win10
>not using win10 in the first place
>also hiding the horrendous looking taskbar and the rest of the shitfaced theme layer
You sure love it, moron.
I remember when I tried to rice winXP by installing tons of retarded themes, tweaks and launchers to make it appear decent and MacOS-like.
Then I realized I could just hackintosh.
Don't be a retard, retard.
>>53900449
I like your windows borders, how did you get it that way?
>>53892880
its extreme shit and i love that its gone
holy fucking shit it looked so disgusting with all the transparent shit and all the bubble icons
FUCKING BUBBLE ICONS
>>53892880
>very soon
2020 isnt soon.
Aero is infitintely better than "MS paint: the DE" look of win8/10
>>53900685
>flat design
>good
>>53900368
There's a program for it, I forgot its (not in my computer atm). It's paid program, but there's pirated version. Go look up.
Aero, or rather, transparency with blur is the ultimate design. It's far superior to any color. Now the window borders do look kinda crappy but that can be modded.
Back in Vista they had the most advanced and best looking ui. It even had animated wallpapers. Now we have a trend of going backwards. I wonder when, if ever we'll have design that supercedes it, and what it will be.
Yes, it was bloated. But windows 8.1 without it is just as bloated.
>>53900449
theme?
>>53894532
kinda what this guy said. although I don't hate Aero (still using 7 without transparency) I prefer the new flat colors design. But, Microsoft, being the King Midas of Shit they are, always fucks up with something. Flat colors are good but menus and icons looks like they were drawn by a child. a retarded one.
It's true what they say...you can't always get what you want.
>>53899197
The darkness of the aero and the buttons looks like absolute shit. All in all, much worse than Vista.
And no, W10 doesn't do it better, because it comes built in in Vista & W7 with no bugs and it will never break.
Why can't we have blurred transparency material design?
>>53892880
Its just need to remove white edges and it will look godly
>tfw legal copy of 10 education
>tfw education is a clone of enterprise but with a different volume license
really just sign up for a microsoft related class at your local community college and grab a legal copy of 10 education for free from elms.
thats what i did. i was studying for mcsa anyways so signed up for the intro class at my community college for $150. got visual studio enterprise, office, 10 education, server 2012, windows 7 pro, windows 8.1 pro, and server 2016 tech preview for free from my elms account.
>>53892880
Windows has always been crap.
I'm using Windows 7 with auto updates turned off. I only use Windows for ripping new blurays and gaming. Linux or ChromeOS for anything and everything else. Ubuntu MATE 15.10 with minimal ricing is awesome. Was a bitch and a half to install, but I got it.
Why did they get rid of aero? I thought the newer versions still had aero.
>>53899197
i seriously thought that was a screenshot of a linux file manager for a second.
>>53901705
Is that a good or bad thing?
Windows is pushing to be this weird version of linux thats closed source eventually
>>53892880
Aero's biggest flaw was always that the active window would have the X button in this big, awful, obnoxious red color. And of course there was no way of changing it, outside of using classic theme or using UX Theme whatever and downloading some garbage off some Deviantart page or blog. Or editing it yourself with resource hacker. I'm so glad Windows 10 FINALLY did away with this shit and the X doesn't turn bright red unless you mouse over it.
>>53892880
I'll miss it, it was a nice design !
The Win7 plain theme was really good
>>53898946
Yes it is
>>53892880
You preferred glowing buttons over desktop cube, wobbly windows and burning effects? Why?
>>53898946
Window contents themselves can still be HW accelerated, but Windows won't composite with HW acceleration. Which makes dragging and redrawing windows take up a lot more CPU.
With classic theme on my i7-2600k, just dragging a window around my empty 1920x1200 desktop uses ~3-5% CPU. That's almost half of a core just to drag a window around.
>>53892880
I liked aero when it came out but it didn't age very well. OS X's transparency looks cleaner and more modern imo
>>53902047
Flat color crayon buttons look like it's literally designed for toddleers.
>>53902162
So does shiny sparkling buttons
>>53900066
>All systems nominal
Every time.
It looked pretty cool on first use. Then again wobbly windows on Compiz also felt the same. After a while both were only worthing resources and nothing else.
>miss aero
but its not going anyplace anon
>>53902529
>Still no aero on the taskbar
>No aero on windows
Not good enough
>>53902622
this is an insider build they are probably working on adding it to everything
Can you activate POSReady 7 with Windows Loader or some other means?
It has support until 2021.
>>53902656
But that's what it's looked like since 10 came out
I love how they didnt remove all of aeros features for windows 8, it was probs a last minute job
>>53902668
That's just one extra year. If you're really that desperate ...
>>53892880
>lets hear your thoughts on Aero.
Aero was retarded.
>Hey, Apple has some neat new UI elements!
>well, we have translucency
>people aren't using translucency that's been there since Win2k, so lets make TONS OF SHIT translucent
>big fat fucking borders to show off how AWESOMELY TRANSLUCENT THESE FAT BORDER ARE
>woooo we're gonna ride this rocket ship straight to market dominance!
>Expose? What? Well, okay, we'll do this shitty Flip3D thing that is completely useless. It's got visual effects, though, so it's exactly as good as Expose
The problems started with XP. They went to the XP Themed look. Except it only went one dialog deep. Then things went all shitty when Aero came around. Go two levels deep and it's still Win95 UI. Plus, they kept the old settings dialog which allowed you to set the active/inactive window titlebar color, BUT IT HAD NO EFFECT.
Fucking horrible UI, endless infighting at Microsoft, rebranding initiatives instead of innovation, and desperate attempts to check off arbitrary boxes (e.g. "has 3D effects somehow related to switching applications [i.e. Expose as an idiot would describe it]").
When they aren't busy trying to cram a desktop UI into a hand-held device (Windows CE/PocketPC), they're busy trying to force a hand-held UI onto a desktop device (Windows 8 Start Screen). And when they're not doing those, they're busy gathering endless data about you, but never actually using it to improve anything (Cortana is a joke).
>>53900677
>>53900920
shine 2.0
>>53902622
There is Aero on taskbar, you can enable it in Settings.
>>53900655
the only thing i did was install a theme, senpai, how the fuck is my screenshot even comparable to the horrible default look of win10?
>>53902773
You don't need a leetsauce graphics card to run Aero with all the effects on. That hasn't been true since 7 came out. Even shitty Intel Integrated can handle it just fine.
>>53902685
Can some Win10 fuckboi post a desktop shot showing the window titlebar colors? It infuriated me when I installed the RTM Win10 that EVERY window had a white titlebar, making it a PITA to identify which window was active (especially with multiple monitors). I've heard that they backed that shitty change out (it was better in an earlier Release Candidate), but haven't seen any evidence.
inb4 "look at the close button color", no, that's a waste of cognitive resources.
>>53902796
It looks like the worst parts of 7 and 10 crammed together. Just terrible.
>>53902807
That wasn't the case (at ALL) when Vista was released. Man, people hated Vista so much.
>>53900207
What's the best way to generate those again? I heard a program did that but I forgot the name.
>>53902789
No there isn't
It's only on the start menu, action center, and other menus, not on the taskbar itself
>>53902827
I know, that's why I said since 7 came out. Vista "Capable" was a giant clusterfuck with MS, Intel and OEMs all pointing fingers at eachother.
8 and 10 don't have Aero? One more reason not to downgrade to them.
>>53902813
Dark colors make text white, light colors change to black
>>53902826
ok i bow to you and your superior homosexual taste
>>53892902
I don't know why, but I feel so much more productive with Windows classic than Aero and whatever Windows 8.1 and 10 uses. It's a shame they removed the engine for it.
>>53902840
Doesn't matter. "Since 7 came out" is meaningless, since there were still people upgrading from XP.
The fact is that Microsoft wasted system resources drawing completely pointless, clumsy, fat, translucent borders and people had to pay for the privilege.
Just like Microsoft Office. They came out with the ribbon bullshit because some carefully crafted study showed new users understood it quicker, and destroyed 15 years of existing business users' ingrained knowledge and habits.
Oh man, and one version back Word started doing a godawful sliding animation when you hit page down. Literally makes me sick to my stomach. I hate UI animation so much, it's the skeuomorphism of 2015+.
>>53902858
>Dark colors make text white, light colors change to black
I have no idea what you're trying to say, and that image doesn't even show an inactive window titlebar next to an active one.
>>53902921
Light color = Black text
Dark color = White text
You didn't ask about inactive titebars
>>53902950
>You didn't ask about inactive titebars
Are you really that retarded? Do you not understand what I wrote here:
>>53902813
>Can some Win10 fuckboi post a desktop shot showing the window titlebar colors? It infuriated me when I installed the RTM Win10 that EVERY window had a white titlebar, making it a PITA to identify which window was active (especially with multiple monitors).
Let me repeat:
>EVERY window had a white titlebar, making it a PITA to identify which window was active
Let's zoom in a bit
>making it a PITA to identify which window was active
How do you not understand that I'm talking about differentiating active from inactive windows by looking at their titlebars?
>>53901957
Unused CPU is wasted CPU.
>>53902996
>Can some Win10 fuckboi post a desktop shot showing the window titlebar colors
And I did
>>53892909
Just take the time to read the knowledge base article for every update. Hide the ones that are for Windows 10 upgrade or add additional telemetry.
>"Lol you're trusting what Microsoft says about those updates are true?"
Either Microsoft is being truthful about it or they're not and that probably means even Windows 7 RTM has a bunch of hidden questionable features.
>>53903028
While this is true, if you have a slower processor, it's better to stick with Aero. i7-2600k isn't exactly a slouch.
>>53902901
It's a shame that vsync doesn't work with that theme
>>53902047
I would have liked to have seen what would have happened if Aero had matured and shed some of its glossiness - especially if Microsoft would have kept the Glass and moved the window contents to something more like the Modern style.
>>53901661
Are they all OEM though?
>>53899197
>>53899228
Thank you Pajeet
>>53902831
Media Preview by Babelsoft or something like that.
>>53903029
...while ignoring the actual content and context of said request.
>>53904546
The context was that white made it too hard to tell the difference. Now it's colored. You're welcome
>>53892902
>>53902901
enjoy your screen tearing
>>53899228
>>Namefags
Not even once
