Why was windows xp so beautiful?

why was windows xp so beautiful?

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It wasn't

The ugliest version of Windows. Only saving grace was that you could turn it to look like 2000 for the most part.

this is peak GUI performance. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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>having this shit taste

blue/green looks nice to us humans, it's comforting. the preference for that weird tannish color inside the actual windows was great too although that existed before xp, in any case it looks way better than the white/black/blue window colors we get now

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Only Media Center looked good. OG XP was shit.

Most woke post on here

Nostalgia.

it is

It was not. You just like it because it is old and you love to larp about old stuffs

>XP-tan so beaufiful
FTFY

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I thought the olive and silver themes actually looked pretty nice. Also has my favorite icons, everything earlier is too pixelated and everything after became too shiny. And now were stuck with boring flatshit silhouettes of icons.

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The dark zune theme was aesthetic af

I genuinely feel like Windows XP was the last version of windows to be "designed"
Everything since has just been the "designers" lying to their corporate bosses about how much better these expensive arbitrary changes make the user experience, in an effort to keep their jobs.
PC design language peaked in the early 2000's, but designers will always have to keep their jobs. Therefore they will always be doing arbitrary shit.

because it was very consistent ui wise
just for example note how the taskbar, the start menu and a window titlebar all look the same, have the same material
win7 had it too
note how in every linux de it has 3 different designs for these

cute

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We must go back. Windows would be worth using for the classic shell.

It actually felt like using a computer and not some cheap entertainment electronics device.

7 with classic theme is the best.

it's those fucking green hills. they were very nice to look at.

fuck that thred fuck winbots

fisher-price os. it annoys me that environments like lxde thought it was good enough to imitate.

>wanting a work of art to look like shitOs
barinlet detected

it was really cute i use it everyday but sometimes i get wannacry

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Zune theme was best theme tho.

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>barinlet

> under 4 gb with all software that i needed
those were the times, i could backup my entire full install on 1 dvd
> full software + configuration reinstall/restore under 5 mins !

>sometimes i get wannacry
kek

this and Vista

>not Longhorn

>boot up pc
>takes 5 minutes
>beautiful windows xp chime welcomes me
>play some cs 1.5
>play runescape
>youtube "game maker 7.0 tutorial platformer"
>009 sound system music + notepad + unregistered hypercam 2
>go on facebook and play social empires with cheat engine
I WANNA GO BACK REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>cs 1.5
God, those were glorious times.

this

That looks like shit. Bozo the clown. Even Aero, that ugly piece of shit, is still better

>>play some cs 1.5
Shit game then and now. Could of been playing Battlefield 1941.

>Antergos
lol

>hills
i like tits better

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this was the pinnacle of white man technology. everything went downhill after xp. windows seven was a bloated turd compared to xp.

>Look mom I can 32bit colors!

Themes.

royale noir didn't have the filthy disgusting orange highlights
media center and embedded were also better

>could of
I'm glad I wasn't part of that community if this is what it lead you to.

fpbp