Desktop thread, 90s edition
Desktop thread, 90s edition
Juan Howard
Brody Richardson
say no more
Leo King
>Chrome with the picture of Internet Explorer.
Nice try user.
Ayden Miller
baséd
Grayson Diaz
not quite 90s (2000-ish I think), but I found this screenshot of mine on old CD. In native 1024x768! I was impressed with 24 days of uptime, apparently.
Mason Edwards
>Nice try user.
?
It's today's screenshot, debian 10
Gavin Baker
Anthony Smith
I have vague recollections of an MSN branded edition of Windows 98 or ME. Is this it?
Alexander Sullivan
Joseph Morris
>Vice City
nice
Kayden Phillips
it's XP SP1. That puts the year around 2004
Aaron Reed
What do you do with these, it all looks so comfy but do you just have them to show off?
Noah Perry
Thomas Parker
The G5 is mostly a space heater for making the window group symmetrical until I throw a 7800 GT and some more memory in it, but I do use the HP-UX machine and repurposed thin clients a lot and the T1000 will eventually become my primary server when I find a better place for it to live than sealed up inside my desk.
Asher Ramirez
Nice, but what triggers my assburgers is that all these Windows 95 esque desktops always use the wrong font. Grab MS Sans Serif (sserif.fon) from a Windows install medium and convert it to bitmap format using FontForge. It'll make the experience feel far more pleasant.
I miss the era of alternative architecture workstations, now everything is either running x86 or ARM.
1024x768 was pretty big. There was a time where high end GPUs targeted 768p, good times.
Leo Roberts
what theme is this
Brody Sanchez
It's CDE.
Mason Johnson
Carter Smith
Christian Sullivan
show that pape right this instant
Jack Barnes
Oliver Anderson
Camden Lee
Ayden Peterson
holy shit, this is awesome. I forgot how good things were in the early 00s. Is that ZoneAlarm in your system tray?
Tyler Collins
beautiful, i have nothing on you.
Lucas Garcia
wow I want this so bad.
Tyler Clark
uwu
Brody Lee
Trying to recreate a 90's looking feel with emulator.
Landon Walker
Anthony Baker
Carter Anderson
Anthony Butler
Bought a new monitor
Elijah Adams
how to be cringe:
use any windows theme on linux
Isaac Watson
>he doesn't use ironic desktop themes
>he uses a desktop at all
Colton Evans
Hey sport, let's take those upvotes back to their own website, alright?
Easton Howard
mine isn't 90s, but editions are rarely adhered to by everyone anyway
Parker Robinson
pape?
Hunter Myers
You went too far back
October 25, 2001 != 90s, but that desktop full of icons is pretty 90s
neat
Xavier Ward
Red pill me on Helvetica.
Jace Martin
You know what I find odd about older computers (only in hindsight, at the time it was obvious and natural) is that they formed such a symbiosis with other unrelated technologies and concepts. These days it seems it's just the computer itself and it draws everything else in to it and subsumes it.
Oliver Green
Arial is not Helvetica and never will be but for bitmapped fonts for 90s interfaces Helvetica is the Unix gold standard
You win the thread
Camden Williams
How do you mean, user?
Jeremiah Ortiz
how do you go about setting up an environment like OP pic? if I had that, i'd unironically dump my ugly-as-sin windows 10 botnet
Lucas Price
Joseph Foster
It's hard to explain what I mean, as it sounds really weird in the modern world, but computers were just another aspect of an environment, and not the ultimate centre-point of that environment. Think about something as mundane as icons. Now everyone has digital music, what use is using a CD to portray music software?
Julian Parker
xfce is practically stuck in the 90s sooo
Luke Thomas
Computers used to print, read faxes, maintain contacts and do all sorts of things with other common home and office equipment. Now everything is a search bar and a bunch of ads
Thomas Murphy
Not 90's but there is no general purpose desktop thread so I'll shit up this one instead
Dylan Peterson
you all have very cute and cool desktops in this thread right here!
Juan Martin
90% of the work is installing the Chicago95 theme
Colton Martinez
>storing programs in ~/Documents not making a ~/Programs folder and linking the programs to /usr/bin
John Hernandez
There is and u know it
Connor Morris
Xfce 3.x did a really good job of implementing a CDE-like interface. If you want to try it out grab yourself Slackware 9.0. You'll also get early Gnome 2 and KDE 3. Slackware 4.0 will give you an even better nice taste of 90s Linux.
Wyatt Russell
tried shitcago95 theme on a vm one time on both ubuntu and debian, xfce DE. it was not completely win95 style, some icons were still their xfce defaults or just blanks. I pretty much gave up when I realized how tedious it is to change these things manually, near impossible unless you know your way through loonix filesystem and how themes work underneath. why can't xfce itself just add a panel where you can simply pick an icon for each file type? they make things so hard
Julian Stewart
Evan Wright
I fucking hate how little improvement to usability there's been but how much of an increase in system requirements. I remember even "heavy" GNOME 2 and KDE 3 being far faster and more responsive than even Windows 2000 or Xp, but now they feel more sluggish than even Win7.
Julian Watson
It's kind of weird how the consolidation has made computers "do less" in absolute terms.
Jacob Perry
I'm using mate in the OP. Trivial to add support for new file types/programs by symlinking icon to new name.
Carson Robinson
oh ty, will try mate
Josiah Scott
The differences between Gnome 2.6 and MATE are quite vast, but MATE is still Gnome 2.x. KDE 3.x had a thriving ecosystem of applications and extensions that KDE 4 never quite got.
We all knew they were bad ideas ten years ago and we're all still right
Ryder Bailey
No but I do have an unhealthy obsession with thinkpads
Jacob Garcia
many thanks user
Wyatt Cruz
:)
Nolan Garcia
Ryder Williams
Hey retards,
Use this if you want "classic UNIX looks" or use Windows if you want Windows looks.
Mason Smith
1/2
Nathaniel Mitchell
2/2
Wyatt Thomas
5/2
Christopher Carter
29/2
11 years later (gosh)
Isaiah Jackson
cute pape, if this isn't some old pic from like google can you post it plox
Eli Kelly
ok
Nolan Morales
This is sick
No 90sposting for me tho :^)
Colton Morgan
cute
Owen Nelson
>You went too far back
Workbench 3.9 released in December 2000. Really not too far back but too late.
Andrew Phillips
these filenames are killing me
Kayden Carter
Lucas Wood
Good thread theme! Looks awesome, but you need some bitmap fonts!
Looks great
>800x600
wew
Pretty cool even if it's not 90's. Always respect for Debian.
Pretty based. Only gripe I have is with the start button, but everything else is pretty sweet.
Nicholas Kelly
>thumbnail looks like a perspective picture of a girl in spread eagle
>it's just onionslent bottles
why would you do this to us
Jace Adams
First time, rate and be gentle please
Dylan Wilson
Benjamin Walker
I'm procrastinating again bros...
Gabriel Baker
Hudson Moore
Freetype was fixed so new screenshot. How am I doing?
Jaxon Morgan
Hudson Lewis
Very nice
Joshua Harris
I guess I'll never read this book.
Justin Gutierrez
Ayden Lee
cute artist
Chase Thomas
better?
Ayden Parker
does anyone have any cool dragon wallpapers
Isaac Anderson
Damn right, looks sick. Nice work!
Cooper Martin
Noah Bennett
file browser font
Brayden Cook
Is there a quick and easy way to dump the context of a file to stdout and colorize the output?
Michael Ramirez
Jonathan Brown
what's the ascii sword and the random text?
Elijah Sullivan
You are such a fucking faggot. Copy cat to the maximum degree. Kill yourself because nobody will miss you
Michael Bailey
Out of all the windows-like rices I've seen on this general this is my favorite.
Juan Gray
The text is cmatrix and the sword is just a cat'd text file
Dominic James
>Why do you have The Wall in your local collection? All you have to do to hear it is turn on any classic rock station for 3 minutes.