I fucking love KDEs Windows 95 theming for some of the interface, while still looking sleek and fast as hell. That and the Plastik theme for the minimize, fullscreen, and exit buttons. :)
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To make my dad switch I made his Mint look like windows, he's happy
Ah, yes, Redmond theme.
I had to convince my cousin I bought him a Mac, but I didn't want to support a Mac, so I tweaked KDE to look like OSX. He thought it was great how cheap he got a laptop, and was surprised Dell made Macs now. Had him fooled for about 2 years until he asked some kid to help him do something.
I just shrugged and asked him if he'd have known if he hadn't been told. Yah, cuz knows cows, not computers.
Is this like a real anecdote? Two years… no problems no questions ?
Really, no issues. Manjaro KDE. All he uses is a browser and WPS Office.
Sorry, no issues... Manjaro?
I cannot visualize 6 months without it breaking on update.
I run Manjaro on about a half dozen systems for the last 5 or so years. I've had very few problems. I've used a lot of distros over the last 30 years, it's been the least maintenance.
There's a lot of unfounded Manjaro hate on this site, probably by people that have never used it and just parrot the Manjarno narrative. It's pretty sad to see how it gets maligned at every opportunity.
If you’re setting up a computer for family then you’re the one who deals with the problems
For most people that is just running a browser so issues are unlikely to surface
Well... I did, it was fun to see the IT support team of my work shaking every time they access my machine to some maintenance:
On the contrary, if you do that, some users wouldn't even notice they switched to linux!
Or you can do a little trolling
What do I do to make it look like an old-school UI?
Ctrl+Alt+F1
Install an old school looking theme and icon pack.
I installed Gnome and now everything looks like macOS. Help!!!
Extension manager flatpak
Elementary OS 👀
meanwhile me with my install of Void Linux using the Chicago95 theme...
Funny, I tweaked my Linux PC at work to look like Windows XP. It's so cursed, I love it.
XP was peak Windows, good times
Believes anyone asking for tech support is consciously aware of Windows versions
Lol. Lmao even
Eh, if you like the style, theme it to your heart's content
i used to tweak windows to look like Linux.
you mean move the task bar to the side or top?
yep. and a wallpaper too.
Windows 11 be like: We don't do that anymore!
That is actually what brought me back to Linux, I used to run Ubuntu and then Mint around 2010 but had to switch to Windows for work (and stuck around because it works well enough) but the taskbar being stuck on the bottom bothered me enough to finally make the switch back.