Thread 107182843

Why don't Linux devs just copy Windows 7, that's what literally everyone wants

>>107182843 (OP)
false, nobody wants that crap

>>107182843 (OP)
It's called Linux Mint and it has more users than Windows 7 already

>>107182843 (OP)
Because most of open-source developers are corporate employees who are so brainwashed into thinking that people want layers on top of layers of abstractions, hierarchies for shit nobody cares about, yet rigid, flat and ugly thing that matters (the HMI) that they can't think of any other way of making computers a more useful tool.

See: Genera, Squeak, Croquet Project, and their forks.

Their employees want us slaves (everyone's a slave on this prison plant) racemix, to suffer, be weak, be stupid, and eventually die until only a fraction of those obedient nu-sub-humans remain for the owners of this global enslavement system to play around with like pets.

>>107182843 (OP)
Because they could accidentally make working system and that's not the goal so they copy Win10 instead.

>>107182843 (OP)
Linux has fundamental issues beyond some superficial appearance. To actually copy windows 7 would require throwing out basically the entire linux ecosystem and starting over.

Give me one good reason why you can't have lettered volumes in Loonix

>>107183134
we wuz unix and shieet

>>107183134
You can.
Just mount them like /C/ /D/ etc

>>107182843 (OP)
Why can't Microsoft just copy Windows 7? It's a fucking mystery.

>t. perpetually annoyed Windows user

a long-running project already exists, but apparently the devs are pussy bitches, even being said to be majority Russian
if nobody gave a fuck, Win7 would be integrated into the kernel along with ZFS

>>107183003
false, i do, so does anon

>>107182843 (OP)
AeroThemePlasma is for you!
I don't know anything about creating distros myself, but if I did, I would make a Fedora image that has AeroThemePlasma pre-applied.

>>107182843 (OP)
no, that's what you want

frogslop

>>107182843 (OP)
its shit
fedora is better

the fundamental problem with wanting linux to be more like windows is that linux users don't want it to be more like windows in the first place. we use linux /because/ of the ways it's not like windows

you're so used to a specific way of using a computer that you can't imagine there are other ways that aren't even trying to be like the way you're used to. i see this all the time, people who "peek over the fence" and just complain that it's not the same as what they're used to, like immigrants that don't even try to fit in

>>107183370
Linux sucks, pretty much everyone just wants Windows without the bullshit that came from 8 on.

>>107182843 (OP)
Have you tried Mint? Sounds like what you want almost verbatim.

>>107183405
well "everyone" should make their own os

>>107183405
i won't say linux is perfect, all i'm saying is that i don't want it to be more like windows, either
you are looking at linux because you hope it's better than windows in some way, correct? well by hoping it's better you are also necessarily hoping it will be different, too. as something cannot be both better and the same as something else.

>>107183370
It's not a very good system. I do kind of agree that the Linux community will actively prevent any and all meaningful improvement. That's why something like a Windows-ish FreeBSD fork might work better since it would start from a cleaner slate instead of carrying the Linux community as a baggage.

>>107183440
if you don't like it, don't use it, or contribute to it. complaining is pointless. this isn't a product you paid for, your complaints help nobody

>>107182843 (OP)
What do you think is it that Linux devs should copy from W7?

>>107182843 (OP)
Why don't Microsoft just recreate Windows 7?

>>107183440
>It's not a very good system.
then what are you actually asking for?
even with minimal knowledge of linux you /know/ that making it the same as windows 7 just isn't going to happen. so what exactly do you want?
i mean, i can guess that what you really want is the core of windows 11 with the windows 7 interface and applications placed on top. that much i can understand since in linux you can and people do run UIs that were popular decades ago on linux, since that's something linux can do, perhaps you've seen this and just want that for windows, and that's fine, but you're asking the wrong people. ask someone to find a way to hack in the win7 explorer into windows 11 instead

>>107183043
>cant even restart and f11 without lockinh up the system ans havint to reset
>lock screen reliant on lightdm
good os

You know... There is a KDE port for both freebsd and openbsd? And there is a feature complete fork/theme of KDE that is near 1:1 with vista/7?

Just gitgud and install freebsd with kde.

Either that or stop crying like a little bitch.

>>107182843 (OP)
IceWM is Windows 9x/2000/XP themable

>>107183943
doesn't look like windows bro

>>107183633
i'm not sure what you mean with "f11"
>lock screen reliant on lightdm
lightdm IS your lock screen by dude

>>107182843 (OP)
because we can't have nice things

>>107183220
all of them read the windows xp source and there were multiple contributors from m$. just like in wine. the warnings itself and the stuck up "harsh" policies are the legal hail mary in case shit hits the fan. it's very much unverifiable to prove that you read the source unless you've literally pasted a huge unchanged chunk and even then you could argue that UH IT JUST WAS THE ONLY WAY TO WRITE IT IN THIS SITUATION MKAY

>>107184973
It's horseshit anyway.
If M$ REALLY wants to legally torpedo somebody? That pissy disclaimer is not gonna stop them.

>>107183425
Mint is moving towards being a buggy bloated mess, so it sounds like the opposite of what OP wants.

>>107183425
Mint is shit, new Linux users should just install CachyOS and then eventually graduate to Arch

>>107185542
>Endeavour is Arch but preconfigured
>CachyOS is Arch but better, and preconfigured
What's the point of moving from an Arch-based distro to Arch?

>>107182843 (OP)
by copy windows 7, you mean present an interface like windows 7
you don't give a flying fuck about the kernel and other things that actually comprise the OS because you are a consoomer that isn't aware of those details
microsoft has tricked most of the population into thinking that the UI is the OS, and has marketed new versions of windows solely on this distinction
the truth of the matter is one can pick and choose their UI on linux, so there is no barrier to you configuring a desktop environment to look and behave like a windows machine

>>107186046
so you can configure it yourself

>>107185542
>CachyOS

Really want to try this out and slap aerothemeplasma on it

Apparently (!) it runs any windows exe without issue, based on what people are saying

This paired with aerothemeplasma might actually turn out to be the good shit

>>107182843 (OP)
if people wanted the windows 7 experience, then people would be developing it. some tard will spend 30 years developing a niche roguelike only in japanese, but nobody wants Windows 7.

>>107183220
having principles is literally the opposite of being a "pussy bitch" if you want your win7 copysloppa go ask claude code to make it for you or some shit

>>107182843 (OP)
learn something new instead of clinging to arbitrary bullshit you thought was good because you had no other reference point. Windows 95 was better than 7 and so was xp. You're just a boomer retard in denial at this point and your brain elasticity is tanking off a cliff while you do nothing to salvage it but pine for your first baby OS you liked. 7s aesthetic is garbage and it always was

>>107183426
I am excited for the first vibe coded OS.

>>107187789
We're already there

>>107188806
For fuck's sake. Guess I'll install NetBSD, unless they've already changed their policy.

>>107183119
Tell me about these fundamental issues anon

>>107182843 (OP)
I don't want windows though. that's why I use linux

>>107188806
>codes
good morning saar

>>107183134
/dev/hda /dev/sdb /dev/nvme we had it all along but better