Anyone else miss the fuck out of Windows classic theme? This

I don't

Because I'm currently using it on my Windows 7 laptop

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I want win7 to look like this

The classic theme found in XP and Server 2003 was the pinnacle of Windows UI design. With some adjustments it provided probably the most comfortable graphical UI of any OS.

Unfortunately the classic theme in Vista and 7 was already substantially inferior, and subsequently was removed from 8 and later.

>>57862890
Yes. Me too.

>>57862890
But that IS Windows 7

>>57863331
wew, I didn't know

Okay, here's a bit more of explaination: I want Win7 to look like Win 98 like on that picture.

I miss that theme a lot. It was literally perfect. New themes are so distracting

I miss the XP icons

>>57863358
Apparently you can. With Classic Shell and a bit of resource tweaking. Should not be that hard.

>>57863394
They were the best. The 2000 and earlier icons were still a bit on the crude side, while Vista and later were more and more cold and impersonal.

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XP theme era was better

embedded theme master race

I use classic theme at work, and people give me shit about it. I've even had a supervisor yell at me for "installing Windows 95" on a work computer. Classic theme just looks better with all our shittly written lab software which is Win95 styled anyway.

My only problem with Windows 10 is that there is no Classic theme.

Windows XP has always looked gay to me. Sorry kids. If you think otherwise, it's because you came to age in 2003.

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>>57862709
this

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>>57864003
>theme
Disdain for embedded edition imposters

>>57864125
>Windows XP has always looked gay to me.
This.

It looked like a fucking toy with the blue and green color scheme, the fat rounded edges and bars, and those infantile icons.
I tried the other themes like the Royal Noire, which was better, but in the end I just went back to classic.

I don't even feel nostalgia for it, since my first OS was probably 98 or 2000 (back in grade school), even though my first computer (prebuilt) came with XP when it was first released.

>>57862573
You have Windows 95 theme for both gnome and xfce. I think the one for xfce is called Chicago 95 and for gnome it's called classic 95.

Look them up on their respective *-look.org websites.

>>57862573
Didn't like. Several programs/dialogs/forms were designed with Vista and newer in mind and look downright hideous with it.

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>you will never find a visual style as aesthetically pleasing and practical as rainy day

pic related because I'm on win7, and there is no way to get this theme as it was

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>>57864367
You mean like this?

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>>57864367
>>57864463
Template from XP

>>57864463
I know where you got them, but any software that uses transparency for it's notifications (e.g. Viber, feel free to pick on me for privacy issues) will have those notifications look terrible, therefore, it's unusable to me.

>>57864249
The "fisher price" Luna UI is silly, but once you turn on the XP classic interface and tweak the shit out of it (performance properties, start menu properties, folder options and default explorer window settings, enabling win2k search etc.), you get the comfiest OS UI ever.

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>>57862573

Why would I miss what I currently use?

I have tweaked it with some customization, but mostly turned off a bunch f useless tard candy and adjusted some dimensions & colors for optimum desktop efficiency.

>>57862573
I like win8 but I miss that classic thing.
Anyway I wouldn't switch if I could i suppose. The system wide colour theme is neato.

lack of vsync makes it unusable.

>>57864782
b-but those are obsolete and users shouldn't have a choice in the matter because our overlord pajeet pootella knows what's best for users. what's the problem, don't you like this "modern" inconsistent flat design UI that was designed by 100 different H1B pajeets?

>>57864808
>windows 8/8.1 was the best windows desu. fucking pleb normies complained about the start menu because they didn't know how to use it. i liked it because i could remove the ads and replace them with my favorite software. i wouldn't have to fill my desktop full of shortcuts.
Why did you delete that? It's true. Well maybe it's not the best design but I liked it too. They tried something with the tiles, it was handy and windows + x button brought the most important tools up. It's comfy. I'm still using it.

How can I setup Linux to look like Win98/classic theme?

relevant
http://www.strawpoll.me/11810960

>>57862573
Let'smake a petition to sadeem to do a Classic theme for 10

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>>57865010
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

So. Is there any way to get old look on Win 10?

>>57865384
http://www.howtogeek.com/133405/how-to-get-classic-style-themes-back-on-windows-8/

Looks pretty shitty tho

>>57864795
Just force it through your GPU control panel..

>>57865330
this is my favorite copypasta ever

>>57862977
The fact hardware acceleration is gone in 7 is bad enough.

>>57864253
Every Linux clone is shit and does not even come close.

You have to go balls deep and clone the whole base UI. No shitty gtk skin for some other DE will do it. No one has done this fully yet.

>>57865614
>Every Linux clone is shit and does not even come close.
Truth.

>>57863394
I remember back in 02 when i would boot up XP all the time. I was rather young at the time, i still remember playing Zoo Tycoon before school with my grandfather.

This is literally the sole reason I refuse to update my laptop and server to windows 10.

I have windows 10 running on my nuc in the theatre room but and it's brilliant for that.

Win2k theme was objectively perfect.

Wow, this is a clone of my thread from the other day. Nice.

>>57794749

>>57864643
Fuck that looks comfy.

>>57862573
http://neiio.deviantart.com/art/Classic-X-628290958

:^)

>>57864576
Fucking this.

I just wish it was still fucking usable...

I mean, sure, one can make it so that you get updates until 2019, but...

>>57865585
i don't think there's any way to force it. vsync for windows explorer is tied to aero in some way.

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>>57862573
W10 is fine with this turned on.

>>57865585
That doesn't work.

>>57865614
pls kys fucking jew go back to >>>/trash/ fucking pass shill piece of shit

>>57865010
Q4OS which uses TDE with the XPQ4 theme pack.

>>57862573
https://atom.io/themes/aesthetic-ui

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What you are missing is the fact that the leader in PC operating systems can't design an asthetic as good as some fucking nerds in a university writing some shit on their spare time.

>>57869333
>gnome
kys yourself

>>57869426

It's actually pantheon lol

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>>57862573
:^)

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>>57869514
Teach me your secrets, oh master of classic

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>>57869514
>still has the windows 7 icons
>windows 7 icon on the start menu
jej

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>>57869654
>>57869633

It IS Windows 7 (:

can't we make a petition or something? they should bring the classic theme back

>>57870237
>they
who?

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the nice thing about Linux is that I use same icons I've used for last 12 years and pretty much same aesthetics.

>>57870270
microsoft

>>57870301
12 years and you're still a weeb. grow up.

>>57870137
How did you get the desktop bar to be short like that?

>>57872681
use small icons

>>57869775
>cuckzilla

LEL

>>57864125
>I've even had a supervisor yell at me for "installing Windows 95" on a work computer.
You don't have human rights in your country?

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>>57866772
I'm terribly sorry for interjecting another moment, but what I just told you is GNU/Linux is, in fact, just Linux, or as I've just now taken to calling it, Just.Linux. Linux apparently does happen to be a whole operating system unto itself and comprises a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Most computer users who run the entire Linux system every day already realize it. Through a peculiar turn of events, I was misled into calling the system "GNU/Linux", and until now, I was unaware that it is basically the Linux system, developed by the Linux project.

There really isn't a GNU/Linux, and I really wasn't using it; it is an extraneous misrepresentation of the system that's being used. Linux is the operating system: the entire system made useful by its included corelibs, shell utilities, and other vital system components. The kernel is already an integral part of the Linux operating system, never confined useless by itself; it functions coherently within the context of the complete Linux operating system. Linux is never used in combination with GNU accessories: the whole system is basically Linux without any GNU added, or Just.Linux. All the so-called "GNU/Linux" distributions are really distributions of Linux.

>>57870301
why they smug?

>>57865010
xfce, xfde, chicago95.

>>57869333
paper is sexy, gnome is shit though

>>57864463
How do I get these back anon?

>>57866772
what's wrong? baby got triggered again?

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>>57862573
:V

>>57864367
>>57864463
Just installed. Are folder content panes (window background) supposed to be white?

>>57875421
You can change them to whatever you want.

>>57865701
>http://neiio.deviantart.com/art/Classic-X-628290958

Does this improve performance in the least? The benefit of classic was to disable aero shit that ate resources.

>>57862573
still using it in 7 Ultimate. :)

>>57864367
If you could texture the borders that would be in par with 90's linux screenshots