If Windows XP was released in 2024
If Windows XP was released in 2024
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Retroenshittified
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Brand new word (well not actually, I read it before in another similar post, but you know what I mean).
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That's not nearly shitty enough. It's too useful. Look at all the options and other clickable things you got on the start menu, and it only took one click to open it.
That's not how this works anymore. If this were truly made today, it would be needlessly "streamlined", i.e. everything is hidden so as not to "clutter up" the UI with useful things, and make more room for...nothing. Just wasted space.
We hide everything behind multiple clicks now because the "average user" starts bleeding out their eyes if they're forced to see many things at once.
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Also, icons. The icons in Windows XP are too recognizable. You need to minimalize them. In fact, minimalize it so hard that not one person could understand what the icon is even referring to.
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Abstract art icons.
Folder: rectangle on its side. Start: triangle pointing up. Trash: rectangle standing up.
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You could have shorted your comment. Now if you'll excuse me I have to deal with this eye bleed.
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Trending Web searches: Janet Jackson
lol
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Whatever happened to her? I can't even remember the last time I heard anything about Janet Jackson.
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"Turn off computer" requiring admin privilege escalation is a clever touch.
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Actually it’s even more realism, when the shield is on the power button it indicates pending updates.
OOP knows their stuff!
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Wow... that's really intricate and sure is attention to realism to a level I didn't realize.
Also the more or less hidden "click here to power off without installing updates" shows how little Microsoft has changed.
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Oh yeah, I had forgotten that too. UAC with separate elevated tokens and Session 0 isolation didn't even exist until Vista/2008.
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I mean, Windows 98's "Active Desktop" was pretty much this.
Someone at Microsoft has been trying to make MSN a thing for almost thirty years, and they're sure that if they ram it down out throats just one more time we'll finally accept it.
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Except you Active Desktop wasn't on by default and was easily turned off in even the cheapest version of the OS.
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day ruined
It's missing the Clippy button in the taskbar
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Also missing the handy celebrity gossip, weather and irrelevant stonks shit that pops up every time you mouse past it in the Taskbar.
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Clippy search field on the taskbar.
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Clippy, now powered by chatgpt
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Somehow this still looks better than W11
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It's the full start menu with one click, and the toolbar isn't needlessly centered, so yeah. I'd actually take this over Win11
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You can set the taskbar stuff to stay on the left, at least in the version of win11 I use for work.
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That [Yes] [Remind Me Later] thing is so 2007...
Nowadays Windows features all have a definitive [Off] option, that will fully hide the feature from view and only enable a daily message that pops under your mouse so you can turn it back on any time you want.
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Where the crypto and AI bloat?
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We need AI Clippy.
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yea, where are pinned apps in the task bar?
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Microsoft is a tool bar maker.
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couldn't be, the login is a local account rather than an MSN
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Honestly if Microsoft reintroduces the skeuomorphic UI I'll tolerate any bullshit they pull. It's just objectively pretty IMO.
Also this start menu doesn't have nearly enough useless negative space. Here is my work Win11 start menu for comparison:
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WinXP was good
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Yes. The meme makes me nostalgic about the excitement Win XP brought.
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DVDs nuts
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ha! got em
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@mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world your credit link isn’t actually the original artist. Here is their Deviantart, thanks to the kind internet soul who helped me last time this was posted :)
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whoever downvoted this im in ur walls
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Thanks. I didn't know the original author, so I provided a link to the source where I found this!
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TIHI
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I actually liked and used the old pull up menus in Windows. Starting at Win10 I put everything I use on my desktop and avoid as much of Windows functionality as I can and turn off everything I can. I don't want an Android or IOS type interface on my PC and will go to Linux at some point as Windows pushes that envelope further, or switch to some WinServer type setup where they allow the owner a lot more control of the OS
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Linux Mint is the "I can't believe it's not windows" in the Linux world.
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And LMDE is the "I can't believe it's not Ubuntu!" in the Mint world.
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It at least looks nice and isn't a fucked up mess like what we actually have.
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This is so accurate lol
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Looks like dad's laptop after my first experience with limewire
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If it was released today, why would trending searches be for all that old-ass shit?
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Reminds me of something...
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Just calling your ms-connected non-admin account "Admin" to feel cool.
Cause I bet Microsoft is figuring out how to disable admin accounts except for pro/enterprise.
Anything else you install will either have to be through the (revised & revived) app store, or installers will have to be both signed (as they are now) and approved
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Whoa msn.com still exists. I guess for all the boomers that haven't moved on
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WRONGGGG!! No one would be using an MS Office version that is 21 years old.
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