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If XP was secure, performant on modern hardware, stable and supported by new programs i would still be using it. More then that the reason i quit windows98 was
by gens 10y ago
If XP was secure, performant on modern hardware, stable and supported by new programs i would still be using it. More then that the reason i quit windows98 was that warcraft 3 doesn't work on it. Windows 7 configuration menus are god awful and windows10 ones are far worse then that.
You are making a fallacy in saying that old equals bad/ugly. XFCE is keeping it oldschool and can still look amazing (xubuntu looks great IMO).
There's much to talk about when talking about GUI things. Much indeed. Many things are even quantifiable, instead of being pure personal preference. Just remember that Microsoft spent a lot of effort into studies in what culminated to be windows95, while many other projects did not (the study that ended up being gnome3 is a joke in comparison).
- herbst 10y agoHonestly gnome shell is the greatest thing ever. My focus and productivity skyrocketet. I see how people who would prefer to run XP dont like it. But no reason to make it bad.
- gens 10y agoMy productivity went up when i stopped arguing about DEs online. It is currently taking a dip, though.
- herbst 10y agoI havent worked in a week. So best time to argue DEs :)
- adakbar 10y agoI can agree on this, the booster was super key to show all window, I've never been this fast to context switch between window.
- herbst 10y agoYeah exactly. And super to start apps. Find documents. Its all just a super away
- gens 10y agoXfce, kde (possibly unity, maybe enlightenment) can do the former. Dmenu (probably unity, kde, other standalone programs) and enlightenment can do the latter (Enlightenments Everything launcher is amazing).
- aao 10y agowindows has this feature where you hold alt after alt-tab and then click on the respective window icon instead of using arrow keys to navigate i want to bring this to lxde someday