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Windows 2000 was this for me, but it's true that you could opt out of the bubble gum skin and get a more conventional look from XP if you preferred that.
by mikepurvis 2y ago
Windows 2000 was this for me, but it's true that you could opt out of the bubble gum skin and get a more conventional look from XP if you preferred that.
- layer8 2y agoThis was still largely true with Windows 7. Starting with Windows 8 the UI story really went to hell.
- mikepurvis 2y agoOkay, that's good to know. I was a Mac user from 2007 to 2018, so I missed the entirety of the Windows 7/8 generation— going directly from XP to 10.
- layer8 2y ago10 was a bit of an improvement over 8, so at least you skipped the worst with 8. I haven’t had the heart to install 11 yet though.
- mikepurvis 2y agoLike most filthy casuals, I don't think I'm a particularly "deep" user of the OS. It's basically background chrome for web browsers and terminal windows into WSL and SSH sessions. To the extent that the OS does anything at all, I'm usually just mildly annoyed, like it signing be out of my work VPN or forgetting how my monitors are arranged. Or eating the battery when it should be sleeping (though I understand there's been some historical finger-pointing between Dell and Microsoft about whose actual fault those issues are).