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Windows 8.. or Windows 11 π¬
There is a scale of psychopathy...
XP, though? Hell yeah. I still miss that theme.
The Media Center theme was a nice twist on the default XP theme I'll admit.
I used Royale Blue for ages, it was super easy to find the installer for and was signed by M$ so needed no UXTheme patch.
There was also Royale Noir and Royale Zune. Noir is a dark theme (Not to be confused with dark mode) and Zune, which was a different shade of black and sported an orange start button. Lastly there was also Royale Embedded which was a darker shade of blue, and had a blue Start button.
Lol, I grew up with the 98se theme and xp theme, and at this point i just think they're both incredibly ugly. Peak windows desktop prettiness and usability was windows 7 for me.
I disabled the UI stuff where it would look like Windows 2000 from XP until it stopped letting me. Different strokes, I guess.
https://gitgud.io/aeroshell/atp/aerothemeplasma
Put this thing in a VM and then let a scammer remote into it, see what he does.
XP or NT, Iβd go back
98 SE.
Windows 95 blew my mind.
Then windows 98 preview also was amazeballs
WindowsME
Psychopath
The Mountain Dew Baja blast of windows releases
Inexplicably beloved by furries?
... no hang on, that actually tracks.
Vista
vista and 7 both look really good, so thats fair
XP
Honestly, 8 and 8.1 weren't bad visually (technically a whole different matter). I wouldn't mind making my WM resemble good old Windows 8, but actually has a sane technical base of Linux underneath it.
It was the one with the weird start menu wasn't it? Also wasn't it the one that they started adding the second duplicate ui in a half assed way?
Like where they ended up with 2 control panels
Yeah, Microsoft removed the Start Menu and added full screen tiles, that were widgets that updated with stuff (like news). I don't remember when the two 2 control panels things happened, Windows had always been a mess to me up to that point. It could've been sooner or later, because Windows was built with legacy support in mind.
Windows Me!
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Powershell
That's one of the bad ones