• Petter1@lemm.ee
      19·
      6 months ago

      You can make kde macOS, easy, if you really want. KDE is whatever you want it to be

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        2·
        6 months ago

        Standard non-customized KDE is so good I personally don’t know why would anyone want it to mimic anything else.

        It’s what Windows wished it could look like.

        • Petter1@lemm.ee
          2·
          6 months ago

          I don’t like taskbar designs in general, I prefer the top bar with the menu bar integrated and I don’t like startmenu, that’s why I have fullscreen launcher set up, and well something like a dock that is hiding automatically is handy as well And suddenly I have a macOS design without wanting to mimic it…

          What is the core difference between windows design and standard KDE design if I may ask?

        • LucidNightmare@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          I agree, although I do like a MacOS-like dock, because when I was a kid using Gnome, I always loved the dock it came with by default. I’m a filthy casual though, so I can see why some don’t like the docks.

          • Allero@lemmy.today
            3·
            6 months ago

            KDE is no less casual, so it’s a matter of your personal preference :)

            And it’s just a habit - some people grew with docks, some with start menus.

            • LucidNightmare@lemmy.world
              2·
              6 months ago

              I guess I meant casual in a “I love Linux, and what it stands for, but I don’t know all the intricacies that make it.” :P

              But thank you!

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      6 months ago

      I am a fan of Vista, but 95 was my gateway drug to tech. I remember when I was like, 4? And I discovered that exes were like, huge! But lnks, tiny! Why do we have all these space-hogging exes anyway? Begone! Look dad, I saved us so much drive space! Why does nothing work now?

      And that’s basically been my method of learning ever since. How much can you really break, before it’s broken, and why? Let’s find out!

      • devfuuu@lemmy.world
        12·
        6 months ago

        I used to mess with my windows Millenium so much and deleting random files and changing regex and understanding how things worked that tech support guy was almost every 2 weeks there reinstalling the system for me. And that was how they started to give me copies of the cds to install myself so I wouldn’t bother them so much.

        • criticon@lemmy.ca
          5·
          6 months ago

          Getting the windows ME installation disks (floppys) was how I started learning my way around computers. I could experiment with the registry and other files and if I broke something I could just to re install the OS

        • dan@upvote.au
          13·
          6 months ago

          Vista did a bunch of great things… It added BitLocker drive encryption. It added the Snipping Tool for screenshots. It added a newer driver model that end up making drivers far more reliable than on Windows 9x and XP. It required drivers to be signed, which helps a lot with security. It added UAC, which was initially painful but also really helped improve security (no more running every single process with admin permissions). It moved C:\Documents and Settings\ to C:\Users so we didn’t have to type that long path any more. And probably a bunch of others I’m forgetting

          It was kinda half-baked at the time, but these are all major defining features of Windows. It just took a while for them to become stable.

          • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            6 months ago

            Self-healing capabilities, and the ability to do an ‘in-place upgrade’ (installing win over itself without data loss) were huge too. I had to wipe + reinstall XP dozens of times throughout the years, often for some small bullshit. I was a Vista beta tester, and got a copy for my machine as soon as it went gold. I went all-in and it was actually a fantastic OS. 7 was good too, but it didn’t do that much new, comparatively. It stood on the shoulders of giants.

            All live Windows Longhorn (Vista).

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    312·
    6 months ago

    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.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
        15·
        6 months ago

        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

          • ikidd@lemmy.world
            12·
            6 months ago

            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.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        21·
        6 months ago

        Apple is really the only company that did serious research on building their initial UIs with their human interface guidelines. It’s clear they don’t anymore, and everything is about driving engagement or whatever, but like during the golden era of OS X, Tiger, their UI was far superior, and most desktop environments borrow much of that stuff to this day. I now want a hat that says “Make macOS Tiger again”

      • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I prefer to make MATE look more like Windows, with the taskbar on the bottom… otherwise, I leave the Applications Launcher Menu as is.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    222·
    6 months ago

    On the contrary, if you do that, some users wouldn’t even notice they switched to linux!

    Or you can do a little trolling

  • Eccitaze@yiffit.net
    18·
    6 months ago

    Funny, I tweaked my Linux PC at work to look like Windows XP. It’s so cursed, I love it.

  • LucidNightmare@lemmy.world
    18·
    6 months ago

    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. :)

  • shimdidly@lemmy.world
    204·
    6 months ago

    Believes anyone asking for tech support is consciously aware of Windows versions

    Lol. Lmao even

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    I do this, legitimately – but with a very specific application: Firefox. On Windows, I can get firefox top border to a VERY small amount. But for some reason, in the past – every Linux distro I found, when Firefox is maximized, I still get an additional window decoration on the top, above the browser tabs. My Firefox bar on Windows only takes up 64 pixels of height.