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Win 98's UI isn't very pretty (IMHO) but at least it's spare and relatively clean. Also it doesn't take a lot of resources to render. Compare with MS's more rec

• eternityforest 4y ago
  Aesthetically it's a bit vintage for non-nostalgia purposes, but IMHO the issues are purely things like fonts and colors and rounding, layout and behavior is excellent. I'm not sure I could make it look any better. It's a pretty nice theme considering it was meant for VGA and seems to have been designed around a more limited set of colors. Plus you'd be seeing it on a beige monitor with a wide bezel, with a full size beige keyboard, likely on a desk that also had a note pad, pens, and stationary. I'm guessing it also was meant to look somewhat obviously techno rather than the appliancelike looks of new stuff, because the fact that computers existed was a big deal and they probably wanted to highlight that. I think they did a decent job with the context and what I imagine they wanted to communicate.