>>105872289 (OP)
Why GO BACK? Because it's trendy to "go back" among online tranny circles? Fuck that.
Make something new, something better. Nigger.
Glassy UIs are peak corposlop and we only like em because we associate them with times perceived as better. Literally a trend started by Apple and pushed as far as it went by Microsoft.
>>105872289 (OP)
you can just do things. simply live your life as if it was 2005 still. >limit tv shows / films to things up to 2005 >limit music up to 2005 >limit technology up to 2005 >limit news up to 2005 (use way back machine, etc) >wear clothing up to 2005 fashion >own a car that is up to 2005
just act like it. you can just do things.
>>105873281 >LXQT
This is it OP. This will give you everything you’re looking for if you just apply the right theme and install the KDE 3.5 icons (Crystal or Plastic, I forget). You’ll get a modern and lean codebase will full Wayland support should you wish to use it. Not to sound like a salesman but using LXQT with KDE apps has been a great combo.
I'm a 39 year old boomer, 2005 sucked. We didn't have mobile outside of WAP, PSP existed but wifi points were rare outside your own home. Many people were still using CRTs (Shills never talk about eyestrain or the fact that most CRTs were 800x600 models). Also Wikipedia was starting to get popular and was as bad as AI slop now as anti-vandal bots and abuse filters weren't developed yet. There were notorious vandals that used to camp the featured articles and add porn to it (and not good porn either). Internet was slow, despite being "broadband" it was still quicker to order dvds by mail or even go to rental shops. Torrents were full of malware too as adblockers and antiviruses weren't as sophisticated.
Then don't bring up the fact that most people were using Internet Explorer 6, made worse if your college still used Windows 2000 because they were too poor to afford XP licences.
Eventually you realise nostalgia sucks, and you got to grow out of your baby stage and make the most of the short lifespan of humanity.
>>105880596
I'm 40 years old and miss the old times because at least there still was some degrees of compartmentalization in your life, now everyone is 24/7 looking at a nightmare mkultra black square while being hypersocial and antisocial at the same time.
Eventually you grow out of your child stage and make the most of your short lifespan away from a fucking screen, which was what people used to do when 2005 tech was sucking.
But it gets harder every year
