There's nothing wrong with tuning your UI to match one you're more comfortable with. Thats the beauty of Linux.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026
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I wish I could tweak Win 11 to look like Win 7. The only improvement since then was putting the Folder Up button back and adding tabs to Explorer, everything else is worse.
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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.
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.
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Vista
vista and 7 both look really good, so thats fair
WindowsME
Psychopath
The Mountain Dew Baja blast of windows releases
Inexplicably beloved by furries?
... no hang on, that actually tracks.
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I tweak my linux so it becomes a prison for anyone that boots that isn't me, we are not the same.
Reminds me of this youtuber that fell for a scammer's bait intentionally except he was in a VM of hannah montana linux. The scammer was so fucking confused haha
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"what in the fuck is a luks?"
That's why I log in through tty. What comes next is anyone's guess. Nerd wizardry.
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What's wrong with wanting a UI you're used to?
Everyone wants other people to switch to Linux until they do literally anything a purist wouldn't do with their own personal setup π
You're using a UI?!?? π‘
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I tweak my Linux to look like TempleOS.
Do you have the routine that shuffles bible verses?
Of course, 3d sprites included.
Well, first I tweak my windows to mimic the appearance of the windows that I liked, windows 7. Then I tweak my Linux to mimic that.
Just because hurr durr windows bad, doesn't mean their huge team of UI and UX designers didn't ever come up with a good design. And like most things Microsoft, I take pleasure in pirating it when I can.
Goddamn it I still miss 7
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I went in the far opposite direction, I tried to make Mint look like an entirely fictional OS, of the sort that might be seen in a video game.
... well you can't just say that and not provide screenshots, that sounds cool AF
The left dock is Plank Reloaded and it tucks out of sight when stuff gets maximized. Same for the top bar too. The turtle in both of them is the applications menu. System font across everything is Inter, and the terminal font is Special Elite.
Canβt really take a screenshot of my login screen.
...that's just the default ubuntu greeter with a different background.
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There is a heckuva lot to be said for the classic "start" category based app menu, tied to a task bar. XFCE, MATE, OpenBox, all draw from a paradigm established in the Windows 95 design.
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I use Windows from Scratch. I built all the bloatware and telemtry myself, god damn it!
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I frequently compare my XFCE setup to Windows 95. The job of an OS is to run programs.
Anyone with handwriting that meticulous is the real psycho
Yeah gatekeeping is exactly how we get people to try Linux...
Ooh wait, that's the opposite.
Let people use Linux however they want. That's the whole point of the OS family, it's incredibly customisable
I always loved the MacOS UI, so I emulate it in Linux. The visuals without the OS itself is just π
Thats fine its your linux.
Linux Mint was designed to deliver a smooth landing from Windows, and if you're the type of guy to have a problem with it, then the entire FOSS communtiy is gonna have a problem with you, because you're making it harder for people to escape from corporate solutions.
Win 7's interface was good for a number of reasons and that's why my UI looks even more like it than the stock Cinnamon themes, which are already a deliberate rip-off.
If that makes people think me a psycho, so be it.
It was funny the first 5000 times I saw someone do it, but now it feels like I'm on a 5th date with someone who is still going on a monologue about epicly owning their bitch ex.
Having grown up with a Mac before OS X came out, I liked that I could make XFCE look a bit more like OS 9, but I haven't been able to find a suitable equivalent for kde yet.
I might give a Windows 7 theme a try. As much as I hate Microsoft, I've been feeling unusually nostalgic for 7. That one was kind of peak for gaming.
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meanwhile I'm over here making NixOS look like NeXTStep
I tweaked to look like windows xp, loved the retro feeling
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