I want to go back

Switch to Linux and you can make your desktop look however you want and not be at the mercy of globohomo big tech corporations

>>105813100
>Switch to Linux
But I'm cisgendered.

>>105813109
Well then consider necking yourself

>>105813089 (OP)
You can't go back, only go black.

>>105813089 (OP)
Then do it.

>>105813122
>Well then consider necking yourself
But I'm cisgendered.

What you want back is the curiosity and creativity you once had but lost due to endless consumption.

You can get it back but you must stop consuming goy slop.

>>105813109
>saying cis instead of straight
faggot

>>105813176
Holyshit...

>>105813176
enjoy your zero-days

>>105813100
This is only true if you have the time and resources to make the themes yourself
Otherwise the only themes anyone cares enough to fully complete are all modern flatshit

>>105813312
Oh, no, my furry porn collection has been stolen! Whatever will I do?

>>105813100

I use Nvidia products and Adobe Creative Cloud unfortunately.

>>105813281
There's nothing crazy about it. Just find some old dinosaur at a thrift store, put XP on it, and use it.

>>105813089 (OP)
What the fuck were they thinking when they designed media player skins like this?

>>105813281
>WOWIE, IS THAT LE RETRO WINDOWS XP? SOVL. SO FVCKIN' SOVL!

>>105813510
They thought the future was going to be better

>>105813176
Nice VM

>>105813510
Of looking good

>>105813089 (OP)
We must rebuild Babylon away from the poor and the downtrodden

>>105813100
The underlying functionality is missing. Linux cannot replicate the perfection of classic windows, theming just gives you a hollow imitation.

>>105813315
Chicago95 works pretty well on my Linux Netbook but I had a really hard time installing programs that played well with the theme, and long story short, I broke whatever it is that lets me install programs so I can't just "apt-get" anything anymore. Oh well. Whatever.
The big thing that gets me with Linux is that I have to do a bunch of tweaking and fiddling just to get it to work, where at least Windows tends to work by default and all the tweaking and fiddling is just the minor stuff like getting it to behave the way I want.

>>105813281
Zoomer moment.

>>105813905
Contrary to popular belief, computer hardware doesn't automatically self destruct after five years. Its completely possible to use ten, fifteen, even twenty year old hardware in the year of our lord 2025.

>>105814322
Chicago95 and aerothemeplasma are seemingly the only fully complete and up-to-date non-flat themes there really are at the moment. And both of them are just copying Windows instead of doing their own thing.
Other than that there's Nightglow Blue for KDE with the matching DarkIce GTK theme but seemingly no icon theme that not only looks good with it but is actually complete and doesn't have a bunch of missing icons that just fallback to ugly symbolic shit

>>105814322
haven't had much luck with themes, but some DEs have a nice retro look to them. Trinity has a nice look.

You can? Just buy compatible hardware and install them

>>105814407
>thread on CRT

holy shit I kneel anon-kun

>>105814435
People should hurry up before retro computing youtubers drive up the price of XP era hardware too
People used to throw old shit away and now a 486 machine in good condition costs hundreds of dollars

>>105814490
>People should hurry up before retro computing youtubers drive up the price of XP era hardware too
They already have. Decent XP era hardware that's in working condition is expensive as hell today. You only get it cheap if its broken or so shit that nobody wants it. Your best bet these days is hunting around thrift stores and flea markets who people who don't know what scalping is.

>>105813089 (OP)
You can totally still use all that stuff. It's still an option.

>>105813100
I love that Linux is run by an independent group of volunteers. Corporations are evil

>>105814490
Sounds like a bargain.

>>105814697
Or I could just avoid the waste of money and the headache of old hardware starting to die by using 86Box instead

>>105814830
You can run old operating systems on modern hardware. Even the newest CPUs still maintain backwards compatibility going back to the 8088. The only issues are drivers, but most of that can be handled by generic drivers, and the little that can't can be handled by add on cards.

Of course if you just want to do things the easy way, emulation is your best bet. But setting up a real DOS system is a fun project.

another 'i want to go back' thread by a person who a) wasn't alive when the tech was current, meaning the entire premise of the thread is false, and b) is completely capable of 'going back' in the current day through either hardware or software, but chooses not to

these threads are so pointless

>>105813176
>Just install Windows 98 tovarisch, you won't get botnetted I swears
Fuck you and your VM.

>>105813089 (OP)
Maybe you should ask the EU to stop killing operating systems?

>>105813100
I want to make it look exactly like BeOS but all the themes are decades old and don't work anymore.

>>105814923
schizo can't read threads, more at eleven

>>105814923
>I'm a retard who watched another retard connecting XP directly to the internet without any firewall protection
>now I parrot what others say like a good retard

>>105813315
Windows Classic (95-98-2000), XP and 7 themes are the most mainstream ones, and basically every DE has these already.
>>105813176
Hey I have the same color scheme on KDE
>>105813940
Depends on the DE but most of them aren't that far from Windows by functions.

>>105814697
lol i have two of these

>>105813315
thats just a cinnamon problem

>>105813940
>perfection of classic windows
like crashing constantly?
You coukd make a script that randomly crashes your machine

>>105813089 (OP)
You weren't even sapient back then.

>>105815518
Windows NT was incredibly stable. And whilst it is true there were certain actions a program could perform that would cause problems, the solution is to just not do those things. For more context, the windowing system on windows could be disrupted if an application allocated to many gdi objects or hammered certain apis in some specific way, but again as I said just don't do that and its fine.

>>105813100
isn't linux completely dependent on nvidia and amd being generous enough to make drivers for linux?

>>105813940
Why be a copycat when you can make something more unique?

>>105815572
>And whilst it is true there were certain actions a program could perform that would cause problems, the solution is to just not do those things.
If it's possible for an application to do something stupid that would unintentionally result in a BSOD, then your kernel fucking sucks.

>>105815859
I never said BSOD. Windows NT rarely crashed that way. But in very specific circumstances the windowing system could become frozen. Back when I was learning programming in the mid 2000s, I vaguely recall causing things to lock up once or twice when messing about with the windows api in incorrect ways.

>>105813312
Who's gonna tell him?

>>105815859
I've had Linux crash far more often than 98 because of lightdm problems, so.

>>105813510
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph#Virtual_examples

it was the style at the time

>>105813176

>>105816105
>pentium e5200

>>105813312
amateurs
this setup is windows 10

>>105816124
I get winamp has nostalgia but red pill me on MPC-HC. Why do you use it over mpv player or VLC?

The past is where we keep what might have been.

>>105813089 (OP)
Whats stopping us?

>>105816105
None of you were even born when this operating system was in use.

>>105815355
But if you don't want a Windows (or Mac) clone there's not many options that have actually been updated in the last twenty years so many of them have visual errors on modern programs, missing icons, etc

>>105813176
same for win7, it just works

>>105814407
Nice setup but clean up a bit man

>>105813100
You forgot to mention Mint, Switch to Linux Mint

>>105814776
Everything on the screen was so easy and quick to read. What the fuck.

>>105817600
mint is probably the last distro you would want for customizability because cinnamon has literally nothing unless you want to design an entire UI from scratch