Ok, but did anyone else really dislike this frosted glass thing that Windows did with Vista and 7?
I remember going from XP to Vista, and feeling the customization drop off considerably, and the whole glass thing made the OS feel cold and unwelcoming.
Now windows doesn’t even have any real customization. Hell, Linux distros don’t really even come with whimsical options out of the box anymore either.
I remember Vista & 7 both had the Aero Glass themes, a new light blue theme that replaced the Luna themes from XP & the Classic theme. Sure a lot of color schemes & things like cool looking cursors went away, but you could easily copy most of them from older versions. Only limit I can think of is that the blue theme that replaced Luna (And is technically based off of it) sucks.
8 is the version that basically nuked customization with only the new flat theme replacing everything.
Also, fun fact, the blue theme from Vista & the classic themes both do technically exist in 8 & up, but they are hidden & seeing them usually means something is broken.
As for Linux theming, look at DEs other than GNOME, most are still pretty customizable
Ok, but did anyone else really dislike this frosted glass thing that Windows did with Vista and 7?
I remember going from XP to Vista, and feeling the customization drop off considerably, and the whole glass thing made the OS feel cold and unwelcoming.
Now windows doesn’t even have any real customization. Hell, Linux distros don’t really even come with whimsical options out of the box anymore either.
Where are my fun cursors?!
KDE is still highly customisable. What are you talking about?
I went nuts with it recently, burning jello windows on a 3d cube desktop environment… good times.
I promptly disabled it all, but it was fun for 10 minutes.
You can still change the cursors in windows. I’m using KDE’s white oxygen cursors
https://www.deviantart.com/lavalon/art/Oxygen-Cursors-76614092
Have you tried KDE? many many options
I remember Vista & 7 both had the Aero Glass themes, a new light blue theme that replaced the Luna themes from XP & the Classic theme. Sure a lot of color schemes & things like cool looking cursors went away, but you could easily copy most of them from older versions. Only limit I can think of is that the blue theme that replaced Luna (And is technically based off of it) sucks.
8 is the version that basically nuked customization with only the new flat theme replacing everything.
Also, fun fact, the blue theme from Vista & the classic themes both do technically exist in 8 & up, but they are hidden & seeing them usually means something is broken.
As for Linux theming, look at DEs other than GNOME, most are still pretty customizable