• catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    I wouldn’t make that comparison. There are too many differences to list.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I would classify it as sort of like if they released a new version of Windows where they removed all the bloat, made it not look hideous, and fixed every annoying decision they’d made over the last 30+ years in all aspects of everything across the entire OS lol. So basically if they removed literally everything that made it identifiable as Windows and replaced it with something not shit.

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 months ago

    I use xfce as a desktop, so based purely on looks windows xp. The problem is the enshitification of windows, improvements in one area drags it’s screaming backwards in other ways, I’m looking at you control panel, you get dumber and less helpful every time I look at you.

    • Zero22xx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Most of their design choices from 8 onwards have been pretty questionable. To me, the way they just slapped the new UI on top of the old UI with different things and ways to access them in each, just comes across as seriously half assed. Like they’re just not interested in putting the effort in anymore.

      Even on Windows 11 (which I don’t use personally but have worked with), they ruined the old right click menu by slapping a new menu on top of it that has half the options. So you need to click “show more options” every damn time. Instead of cleaning up or upgrading the old menu a bit and maybe offering the option of customising it, they just hid it with a new, useless menu. And still haven’t learnt from Windows 8 because it still has that two different UI designs, half / half, new / old thing going for it.

      As far as modern, nice looking, well designed desktop environments go, KDE puts Windows absolutely to shame these days.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    windows 2000.

    just like today it’s clearly rock solid to everyone; including to those who hate windows; and has a big following but still not mainstream and is getting cockblocked by better financed alternatives.

  • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
    1·
    5 months ago

    Maybe XP or 7 based on how snappy it feels? But they’re not really comparable.

    TTY is still a thing in Linux and Windows removed that in XP. GUI can vary from classic feeling to more modern than Windows. Package management is leaps and bounds better than Windows.

    Windows XP and 7 are a good one to say to Windows users because they’ll remember them as comparatively light and debloated, which is how Linux feels, even though Linux is very much modern.