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have you seen windows 10? my eyes bled when first I installed this monstrosity of blurry fonts and jarring whiteness...

ConceptJunkie 8y ago
The saddest thing is that the "Classic" skin, which emulated the Windows 2000 look, and is light-years better than anything Microsoft has done since, disappeared after Windows 7. Windows is now so "advanced" that it can't even emulate how it looked 20 years ago. I use WindowBlinds to sort of emulate the Windows 2000 look, but it still has so many of those user-hostile flat UI features which inevitably reduce your display to a mess of indistinguishable pale rectangles.
- Avery3R 8y ago
  you can get it back kinda if you keep dwm from starting, but then you lose some other things.
  - ryandrake 8y ago
    This is a long-standing problem for the whole software industry that is largely unsolved: real separation between the user interface and other logic. In order to stay on yesterday’s (better) UI, you need to stay on yesterday’s software version, foregoing critical security and performance improvements, or rely on nasty third party hacks to bring the old UI back to the new software. I know a lot of people who deliberately do not update their software unless forced to, because designers/developers cannot resist the urge to redo the UI every year, pointlessly moving things around and changing everything.
    - CaptSpify 8y ago
      This, imho, is the biggest reason people don't update their software. They've caught onto the fact that the term "updates" is misleading, and it would be better call it an "anti-feature delivery mechanism". This is why we need two separate channels for updates: One for security, and the other for features.
      - java-man 8y ago
        Excellent idea! But, unfortunately, quite unlikely: it assumes extra thought must go into architecture and implementation. If you look around and see the current state of software industry, the rapid increase of entropy in software systems, the push of the market for cheaper, or completely free software, you'll find no pressure ever to deliver an "anti-feature delivery mechanism". Plus, making a perfect product effectively puts you out of business. But ship a product that needs support, customization, training, consulting, periodic updates, maintenance - and you a rich man!
    - ConceptJunkie 8y ago
      UI design used to be a science. Now it seems they let anyone who can use Photoshop do it.
- java-man 8y ago
  thank you for WindowBlinds

The saddest thing is that the "Classic" skin, which emulated the Windows 2000 look, and is light-years better than anything Microsoft has done since, disappeared after Windows 7. Windows is now so "advanced" that it can't even emulate how it looked 20 years ago. I use WindowBlinds to sort of emulate the Windows 2000 look, but it still has so many of those user-hostile flat UI features which inevitably reduce your display to a mess of indistinguishable pale rectangles.

Avery3R 8y ago
you can get it back kinda if you keep dwm from starting, but then you lose some other things.
- ryandrake 8y ago
  This is a long-standing problem for the whole software industry that is largely unsolved: real separation between the user interface and other logic. In order to stay on yesterday’s (better) UI, you need to stay on yesterday’s software version, foregoing critical security and performance improvements, or rely on nasty third party hacks to bring the old UI back to the new software. I know a lot of people who deliberately do not update their software unless forced to, because designers/developers cannot resist the urge to redo the UI every year, pointlessly moving things around and changing everything.
  - CaptSpify 8y ago
    This, imho, is the biggest reason people don't update their software. They've caught onto the fact that the term "updates" is misleading, and it would be better call it an "anti-feature delivery mechanism". This is why we need two separate channels for updates: One for security, and the other for features.
    - java-man 8y ago
      Excellent idea! But, unfortunately, quite unlikely: it assumes extra thought must go into architecture and implementation. If you look around and see the current state of software industry, the rapid increase of entropy in software systems, the push of the market for cheaper, or completely free software, you'll find no pressure ever to deliver an "anti-feature delivery mechanism". Plus, making a perfect product effectively puts you out of business. But ship a product that needs support, customization, training, consulting, periodic updates, maintenance - and you a rich man!
  - ConceptJunkie 8y ago
    UI design used to be a science. Now it seems they let anyone who can use Photoshop do it.
java-man 8y ago
thank you for WindowBlinds