Thread 107095291

do people actually miss this ugly ass shit

They think they miss the product but they just miss the time when it was around

>>107095291 (OP)
Yes.

I don't miss physical spinning discs. Jesus fucking christ those things are so fucking slow. I don't miss windows vista either, or xp. I do miss windows 2000 UI experience.

>>107095291 (OP)
yes. Just like you miss eating detergent or whatever the fuck you were doing in 2016.

>>107095291 (OP)
No, I hated it even at that time. But Windows 98 aesthetic? That's SOVL

>>107095291 (OP)
nope, gotta resemble a car stereo

For me, it's K-Jöfol

>>107095295
I miss both, the good old days but also how technology was better because it was still made to work, by relatively competent people who tried their best, not by retarded indians in order to be the cheapest possible shit as it is today and filled with political brainwashing.
I used XP with the classic theme though, like practically everybody back then, nobody liked the blue and green default theme.
This WMP skin looks weird by today's standards but it has a strong 1997-2003 era vibe.

>>107095291 (OP)
picrel looks like shit people used the metallic gray/blue one

>>107095291 (OP)
People don't miss how it looked like, they miss how it worked, you didn't have to jump through hoops to get something that looked 'cool' at the time, you could swap from that to 50 different other themes and it just worked, it was an insane concept that your PC could do that.

>>107095291 (OP)
I still think this was peak design, no frills no questions about what is a button or what is a textbox, just simple functionality.

where'd my websites go?

>>107095314
I have a NAS so I still have spinning disks. And I love the sound of HDs. Ot helps me sleep at night.

>>107095631
Windows XP still had the classic theme. Modern windows tries to look like Apple.

>>107095291 (OP)
its more about all functionality being displayed all in one panel instead of trying to google where every setting is for every app

>>107095662
Would you say VLC has this aesthetic?

>>107095291 (OP)
It's called style and you wouldn't recognize it if it walked up and raped your pooper

>>107095291 (OP)
no, they miss the real shit

>>107095343
SOVL

>>107095631
>how it looked like
how it LOOKED GODDAMMIT THERE IS NO "like" AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE YOU FUCKING FASCIST IT'S "how it looked" or "what it looked like" not "how it looked like" THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE I FUCKING HATE YOU ALL REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>107095343
>>107095768
based, I still use winamp

I don't, and neither does my crew.

>>107095295
Both that and the visuals. It's not rocket science, not "had to be there" thing. You show XP weeb wallpaper to zoomers and they shit themselves too because it just says soul. And while visuals are achievable, the old mood sadly isn't entirety. Still flat shit isn't what most people want, it's just forced on us.

>>107095673
Yeah but as OS disk it's a fucking pain.

>>107095291 (OP)
Needs some Flowey animations, then it's prime.

>>107095291 (OP)
Yes, take me back
https://youtube.com/shorts/E0dEwuwIhgg?si=MLYnPUMgQToWufZC

>>107095295
I miss when I didn't have neurodegenerative blindness.

>>107095291 (OP)
not this one, i miss the alienware ones more even though i never had one
other than this one invader was cool

>>107095291 (OP)
sovl

>>107095662
I really liked the windows 95 and 98 aesthetic, I liked DOS

Loved playin duke and doom

Windows XP and 7 were ugly to me dough, I don't feel nostalgic for it at all, windows 7 was especially bad and buggy

Windows 8.1 and 10 are good too, good performance and tiny footprint while remaining powerful, i can easily fit my windows 10 on a ram disk

>>107095808
shut up firstie

>>107095343
using it right now for weeb music

>>107095291 (OP)
Old iTunes was peak music player interface design.

>>107095291 (OP)
ughhhhhh SOVL THREAD

>>107096108
souless

Elder millennial here, yeah I miss it.
Today's UIs are dull and without soul.
What was wrong with aero though? It was still profession and looked good. Now UIs just look like a white piece of paper.

>>107095291 (OP)
no, windows has only gotten better, and anyone who disagrees has their head up their ass

>>107095291 (OP)
Why would anyone miss Windows Media Player

>>107095291 (OP)
windows xp platinum theme

>>107095291 (OP)
https://audacious-media-player.org/
https://skins.webamp.org/

all you need

>>107095343
>>107095768
>>107095820
>>107096072
yeah baby

>>107095291 (OP)
Win9x GUI was peak windows, everything after is enshitification

>>107095295
Nah, I don't miss those times. 9/11, the Iraq War, and the whole creationists vs gaytheists shit was not fun. Windows XP looked nice, however.

>>107095291 (OP)
>ugly ass shit
>he didn't live in peak MTV

>>107095291 (OP)
no one used this back in the day. They used winamp. This was Microsoft's attempt to seem cool.

>>107101965
Creationists vs gaytheists is preferable to the shit we have now in politics

>>107095291 (OP)
off thyself zoomer faggot, you will never know SOVL

>>107095427
>XP with the classic theme
this

>>107096264
>nero
holy sovl i used this to burn my first ps2 games

>I'M BREATHING INNNNN
>I'M BREATHING OUUUUUT
https://youtu.be/CzyeBTjRg6A

>>107095291 (OP)
they miss when tech did most of its job, wasn't invasive spyware and everything wasn't total shit all the time.

>>107101695
>not using Good ol' Winamp color scheme

>>107095291 (OP)
It was fun. Technology was fun in that time, and the world was more fun too. It embodies the spirit of the age.

>>107095662
Function can have a form of its own, old Windows UI had it.

>>107095820
damn, that silver aesthetics!

>>107101695
I believe I used this as well.