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As much (fairly well deserved) hate as Tahoe gets, the video wallpapers and transparency are such a fun Windows Vista vibe I get nostalgia. Time to set this up
by buildbot 5mo ago
As much (fairly well deserved) hate as Tahoe gets, the video wallpapers and transparency are such a fun Windows Vista vibe I get nostalgia. Time to set this up with the Vista waterfall wallpaper and reallllyyy feel like it’s 2007!
- riddlemethat 5mo agoI’m imagining dozens of people worldwide sharing your nostalgia for Vista.
- zaps 5mo ago“Good old Vista. People give it a bad press but I’m never upgrading, why would I? It just feels like a good pair of jeans.”
- devilbunny 5mo agoIt wasn’t a horrible OS. It just broke XP’s “it runs on practically anything” before the hardware was really there. And 7 was, as we all know, the most perfect Windows has ever been. Windows 7 Media Center was a magnificent DVR and a great movie-playing box.
- hbogert 4mo agoThis so depends on the timing. XP was a memory hog when it came out for that generation's hardwarw
- Gigachad 5mo agoIt's called frutiger aero now. Lot of people very bored with modern safe design nostalgic for when tech and UI was weird and bold.
- voidUpdate 5mo agoThe funniest thing about the "frutiger aero" thing is that it looks nothing like how I remember vista looking
- darkwater 5mo agoLet a sufficient amount of time pass, and what people knew in their children/teenage years will be remembered with nostalgia.
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- _kb 5mo agoWhat do you mean Windows Vista "nostalgia"? That makes me feel a little long in the horn.
- ebbi 5mo agoguy_holding_shoulder.jpg
- samat 5mo agoStill burned they did not ship winFS then
- breppp 5mo agoGood thing it eventually grew to replace NTFS
- geerlingguy 5mo agoThere are likely a number of folks on this forum now who were born after Vista was released.
- _kb 5mo agoNope. 2007 is like 2 or 3 years ago, tops.
- charcircuit 5mo agoVista released over 19 years ago.
- stavros 5mo agoYou missed the joke.
- charcircuit 5mo ago[flagged]
- wpm 5mo agoThe moving wallpapers are near the first few times but I can't turn it off. I had to dig deep into WallpaperKit (I mean really? It's a friggin wallpaper) to find the static last frame of the wooshy moving BS.
- asimovDev 5mo agohttps://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Windows_Vista https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Windows_Vista which waterfall are you talking about? i am also surprised to see how many wallpapers were apparently available on Vista. All I remember is the default green gradient thingie and I think I had the bamboo forest on at some point
- dspillett 5mo ago> All I remember is the default green gradient thingie and… IIRC at that time users were split fairly completely into three types: those who customised their OS look a lot, sometimes spending far too much time on it (I was one of them back then), those who had developed a preferred look and just kept that as much as possible between OS changes, and those who just used the defaults and got on with whatever else. This means the other wallpaper that someone at MS put effort into collecting together hardly ever got seen: many users kept the one default, and almost all who didn't had something that they chose from other sources. Maybe the other included images might have seen the light of day more often if there had been an explicit “choose your wallpaper” prompt as part of user on-boarding.
- jermaustin1 5mo agoMy big problem with Tahoe, is the lock screen animation stutters and freezes CONSTANTLY. I'm on an M3 Pro. If I can watch 4K video with no dropped frames, a simple video background should work as well, and if it doesn't, it shouldn't exist.
- radley 5mo agoAre you using a Studio Monitor? Lock screen videos are incompatible with Settings > Displays > Refresh rate > Adaptive. You have to use a fixed frame rate (60 or 120 Hz).
- peapicker 5mo agoI have this problem a few times a day on my corporate M4 Pro when I lock the screen... with 60Hz set. It happens when the two security monitoring app corporate insists on are scanning harder b/c the screensaver kicked in. My personal macbook pro is fine.
- philsnow 5mo agoI'm feeling nostalgic for ~1998 when I ran xscreensaver hacks in the background on the root X window (so the "desktop" I guess)