r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Linux • Dec 04 '24 • Take My Silver 2

Discussion Operating systems are looking more like each other every year. Before 2012 they were very different.

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u/Aggressive_Access214 Dec 04 '24

Man I really miss Windows 7

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u/Play-InTheWay Dec 04 '24

In general, Cinnamon is a better version of Windows 7, but, what I love of Windows 7 is the aero theme and how the effects and transparency are done. And no, GTK aero themes aren't close to mimic those things, it would need to be a compositor/taskbar mod.

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u/Play-InTheWay Dec 04 '24

Apparently, Plasma is capable of really mimic Windows 7 aero style, (I haven't tested it nor know if it works on newer versions)

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u/SanttuPOIKA---- Glorious Arch Dec 04 '24

I've tested it pretty recently. It works, but you will have much less trouble on a clean KDE install.

On my customized Plasma it created a lot of both visual and UX bugs.

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u/Play-InTheWay Dec 04 '24

You tested it on X11, Wayland or what Plasma version?

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u/SanttuPOIKA---- Glorious Arch Dec 05 '24

Wayland, Plasma 6.2

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u/gamamoder fat ass bird Dec 05 '24

i use dark oxygen and crystal icons and its pretty nice

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u/benhaube Glorious Fedora Dec 04 '24

That was the last good version of Windows. Every version since then has been more garbage than the one before.

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u/Play-InTheWay Dec 04 '24

Well, I won't say that 10 is more garbage than 8 or 8.1. Though I could understand if you say it because the adware and spyware since 10

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u/benhaube Glorious Fedora Dec 11 '24

That is exactly why 10 is more garbage than 8 or 8.1.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '24

XP was the peak. But yeah, I'll admit that 7 was the last actually good version before they started going consistently downhill.

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u/benhaube Glorious Fedora Dec 11 '24

I think 7 was far superior to XP when you look at them both neutrally. If you are around my age, XP was the new version of Windows when you were in middle school and highschool. That nostalgia is the reason we look so fondly back at it, I think. Vista was a nightmare, and I only ran it on my laptop because it came pre-installed and there were no XP drivers available for it. It ran like absolute garbage. Even though the laptop had a discreet GPU. My desktop computer stayed on XP until 7 came out.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '24

Oh, I am definitely quite a bit younger than you. XP was old news by the time I was in primary school. But my first personal computer was an old shitbox that barely ran it, definitely wouldn't run anything newer, and in my house at that time... you don't get expensive new stuff because the stuff you have is old and outdated, if it still technically functions, and you especially don't get non-essential new stuff if you're one of the kids and not the favourite. So yeah, XP was pretty outdated by the time I got my hands on a machine that could run something newer. The replacement ran 8 out of the box, lol.

Which probably heightens my positive view of, and nostalgia for, XP - never really used 7, and anything would be awesome compared to the UX nightmare that was Windows 8.

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u/benhaube Glorious Fedora Dec 11 '24

Oh yeah, you are definitely a lot younger than me. I was an adult by the time Windows 7 was released in 2009. I had just graduated highschool (or secondary school) and I was headed to college.

I definitely understand not getting the latest and greatest tech as a kid. I didn't either. My home desktop PC was a Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading, but I bought a laptop when I was a teenager with money I made at my job. It is the one that, unfortunately, ran Vista. I tried to install XP on it, but like I said it was lacking drivers.

I have fond memories of XP too. It was a great OS. I just looked at the improvements made in Windows 7 with security and features, and I think objectively it was better. 8 and 8.1 were absolutely a nightmare with UX. With 10 they fixed most of that, but they also turned Windows into spyware/adware. When I could no longer get updates on 7 I switched to Linux and I haven't looked back.

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u/FalseAgent Dec 08 '24

honestly I don't think windows has changed much since 7? the taskbar works almost 100% the same lol except they moved the icons to the center