>>108023739
I used ubuntu first and then mint. Mint was better personally.
I can only bump your thread, sorry bro, can't help.

Use something else like KDE or a WM. GNOME sucks ass for ricing.

>>108023739
That screenshot is using Enlightenment, so you could try installing that instead of GNOME, but I'll warn you right now Enlightenment sucks ass. It was fine for it's time I guess, but if you're used to modern standards it will feel fucking terrible to use.

WHY ARE THE CAPTCHAS ON THIS SITE SO FUCKED NOW. WHY DO I HAVE TO KEEP SOLVING FUCKING PUZZLES TO POST IM TOO HIGH FOR THIS. okay guys please help i need more recs,

>>108023834
Okay, I'm in KDE, how do I skin it?

>>108023945
go ask the icewm nerd in the desktop threads about is themes. He will teach you the way, if he deems you worthy

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>>108023739
What artstyle is that background called, anyway? Counter-Strike Condition Zero's background is similar

>>108023739
SOVL but you won't be able to put that on a modern distro made for flat design

>>108024901
MATE is so comfy

>>108023739
You want Xubuntu or Lubuntu (official Ubuntu offshoots with different customisable desktop environments)

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>>108025145

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>>108023739
Does my desktop >>108015539 pass?
>>108024869
>What artstyle is that background called, anyway?
It's called metalheart, here's my metalheart wallpaper for instance, I took it from https://desktopgeneration.itch.io/

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>>108023739
what we need is a list desktops and window mangers of that era that still can be used today for example.
Enlightenment16
Moksha desktop (Enlightenment17)
mate (gnome 2)
Trinity Desktop Environment (kde3)
IceWM
Windowmaker
Nscde
fwvm

thats what i know of that works.

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>>108025328
>I forgot to censor the icon

>>108025345
kek, there's also the image path at the bottom of the image viewer window

>>108025345
It's b8. The icon is visible and so is the path at the botton of the picture

>>108025234
>https://desktopgeneration.itch.io/
sick link, thanks much

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livin' in the past with xue

>>108023739
I used enlightenment back then for a while, you should be aware that its totally different now so you'd have to use an old version. I went back to fvwm which is what I used prior to my enlightenment stint.

>>108025234
>metalheart
Oh, that's the ticket. I like that "Hold Your Colour" is under the list of example art on the "aesthetics" wikia. Thanks for the link as well

>>108025344
I love Fvwm so much.

>>108023739
man I miss those days. wish Windows could look like this again

BSDs is where freedom is nowadays. Linux is cucked by IBM and Microsoft.

>>108029628
>Linux is *fucked* by IBM and Microsoft
ftfy. It's *BSD getting cucked by Apple and Sony not giving back changes they made to their own copies and then throwing 250 bucks their way by some employee-matching open charity run.

>>108029628
>>108030413
why is big corpo like this?

>>108023739
That ugly shit was ugly back in 2000s and now it is even uglier. Literary thread for people with 0 beauty standards (or any other standards)

>>108023739
This is like if the Unreal/Deus Ex menu was turned into a theme

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>>108025158
You can get Lubuntu looking pretty cozy out of the box.

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>>108023739
>>108025344
>those old GKrellM themes

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>>108030430
it sucks both ways but at least GNU/Linux gets some development even if many Unix afficionados would prefer some other direction. I don't mind systemd as much these days. GNU/Linux desparately needed the standardization systemd brought at the time even if upstart or OpenRC may have been better. If you want something different there's GNU Shepherd on Guix. The aesthetic is hard to keep genuine these days, since just launching a modern browser, let alone any of the common slop apps like Discord or Photoshop will show you so much whitespace that even if you force your colors and gradients through qt or gtk it will always look off. People forget that XP and 7 didn't look as good as OS X at the time but they never clashed with the ass cancer that were the apps made for it. Whether AVG, LimeWire, Nero or RealPlayer it all looked 'okay' on XP. A lot of rices only look good with a select number of apps.

bumping for interest

>>108030413
So if the corporations using the free software don't contribute back its bad, but if they do contribute back its also bad?

>>108031435
>that GTK window completely runing the aesthetics
I HATE CSD
I HATE CSD
I HATE CSD
I HATE CSD

>>108023739
damn, I miss the days of the Enlightenment wm

>>108033383
Let your window manager draw a custom SSD on top of the CSD and treat the CSD as some kind of retarded menu or patch the applications if it really bothers you that much.

>>108033590
>just invest a ton of effort to get the kind of consistent desktop experience that was commonplace before this retardation took hold

>>108033722
>just invest a ton of effort
Anon ... it's just a single line in your config in most window mangers.

>>108034090
Good luck doing that on Wayland compositors. And even if it works, GTK4 will happily ignore it and still draw its own window buttons and round its corners.

I don't care about the fruitger aero sơyfaces (and never have). I love the early 2000s look. Metro, Fruitiger, Y2K, metalheart, DORFIC, etc... I realize the names came after the era, but it's just what I grew up with and never stopped liking it. There's so much stressful stuff in life and the world is always changing. It's nice to at least have something, even if nonphysical in nature, that stays relatively the same.

>>108034321
>it's just what I grew up with
Then you would know that it's called aero, not frutiger reddit

>>108034350
I love Aero. There. Happy?

>>108034439
yes

>>108033216
this is precisely why bsd haters are retarded

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>>108034541
I'm glad anon. Please, join me in the "bliss" of Aero.

>>108033383
>CSD
Many XP and 7 era apps had some form of CSD. I forgot to add Audacious which (like winamp) can even be shaded unto a pure 'headerbar'. I wanted to show some ugly/nonconforming apps to show how it clashes less than using modern flat themes. I had the XP Embedded msstyle in wine before i ran into bugs
>>108034549
I only use whitesur for the buttons. I deleted everything else in the folder and inherit Obsidian and Faenza (Amber). Faenza looks great but its button icons are hideous, too small and illegible.

>>108033216
GNU/Linux gets upgraded by the companies using it, partially to save on their own maintenance burden, with functionality you may or may not like. *BSD only gets upgraded behind closed doors where actual BSD users themselves get nothing out of it. say what you want about systemd, maybe even wayland but pipewire is decades ahead of OSS. ARM got x86 compatibility because Valve wanted to make a portable VR headset. PipeWire was brought in by automotive companies and btrfs was mostly fixed because facebook needed it to work for their own datacenters. You may think it's getting fucked but at least it's getting laid, unlike BSD.

>>108023945
I skinned my xubuntu with Chicago95 but good fucking luck getting all of your programs and fonts and shit to work
I got it in the end, but now the only working way to ever install software on it anymore is the flatpak GUI because the command line is just broken entirely
Not sure why, something to do with some specific version of firefox not being customizable while another one was, I don't care anymore honestly
Linux is nice on laptops that are too old to handle the obese glut of windows 10 but it's a giant pain in the ass with how cloud-dependant the whole OS is, dealing with repos and dependencies and shit
To this day the middle click is broken and I can't install anything that would supposedly fix it, but why do I need to? Is the middle mouse button really not a function of the OS itself?

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BRUSHED
METAL

linux BTFO.

>>108025345
Heh, ur g377in h4x n0w

>>108036445
tiger chads...

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>>108024869
Orion's Arm type vibes

>>108036445
beautiful

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>>108023739
on my normie gaming pc still debating if i want to run linux and let the 5 people i know know im an uber virgin

>>108037144
>that desktop
don't worry, they already know.

>>108037186
shih my bad for wanting to have some fun with my gaming laptop

>>108023824
Same, I found that Ubuntu ran like shit on my L520, and the only reason I installed it onto my X13 at all was because I didn't have the BIOS password and needed a way for Mint to bypass fastboot.

>>108036134
>Many XP and 7 era apps had some form of CSD
And I found it annoying then. But it was less common and easier to disable or find alternative software. Nowadays it's a whole other story.
The worst part isn't even that it looks like shit but that every program puts the window buttons in slightly different spots and on seemingly none of them the close button will be in the corner on a fullscreened window so you can't just flick your cursor there to close it. It doesn't just fuck the aesthetics it also fucks usability.

SOULFUL THREAD
bumpo

>>108023739
Oh my God. It's beautiful. This thread is Home. By the way, note that this is FreeBSD (even more freedom than Linux) which is based

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>when I try to use it it's just a black scree / boot loop
You mean the actual theme or E16 itself

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I gotta go, I'll keep going if the thread is still up

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>>108023739
god, 2000s rices were so soulful. i miss when people tried to make rices that looked futuristic or cool instead of the same cookie cutter minimalist terminal-only flatshit with moonrunes that every ricer goes for nowadays. even the "minimalist" rices from back then looked nice

>>108042385
ill try to dig through my folder and post some too. i have a bunch saved somewhere ill try to find

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check out https://www.deviantart.com/kfh83/favourites/100574721/desktops-early-to-mid-2k

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>>108042663
nice, thanks for sharing

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i think i'm just about out. tried to avoid posting any that were just some anon's modern retro rice, but maybe a few slipped in there, idk. i could swear i had way more saved somewhere so if i find em ill post em

>>108042464
That's just a default look.

>>108042534
That's actual IRIX the fvwm people use to replicate don't allow the 'dither' effect around the borders.

>>108043524
that's true for some of the other screenshots i posted too (several of them aren't really rices), but nonetheless, i think it captures the aesthetic of desktops from that era very well (or, at least, the kind of aesthetic i was referring to in my post)

>>108043607
Nobody said otherwise

>>108043629
Well, you can't rice to look exactly like that then.

>>108043639
Nobody suggested you could. Reread the OP topic.

>>108042385
I like these old 3d renders.

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>>108044190
They do look nice

I miss Y2K so much, I wish it could be 1999-2000 forever.

>>108023739
Wallpaper?

>>108042577
Is there any way to get Noatun working today?

>>108046248
I think it still comes with trinity, I'll see if I can compile it. It's currently the only way to use k-jofol skins (like the one in the pic)

>software used to look pretty with 64 megabytes of RAM
>"prettiness is bloat, make it minimalistic"
>software is now flatshit but requires 64 gigabytes of RAM
What did they mean by this?

>>108042214
russian spy

>>108023739
gem thread

nigga how do you get non aliased text on my rice NIGGA

>>108048213
use bitmap fonts, or just disable anti-aliasing, pretty much every DE has an option for that.

>>108048227
thank you :3

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found another r-9x pic

>>108038784
VVGGHHH SOVLL AAA SOVVLL!!!!!

best thread in a LONG while

>>108037271
>"I am having fun with this children's game called CS on my gaming laptop"
I can imagine how much women want to be with you after that and they leave your incel cuck apartment immediately.

To the other anon, you're getting baited, don't reply.

>>108043622
Beautiful.

>1920x1440
based 4:3 chad

>>108050232
I miss when shit was unironically cheesy like that.

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>>108050300
I just wanna go back, man

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>>108050785
me too

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>>108050807
>Kazaa
I haven't heard that in years

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>>108042773
here's the matching theme (I think it's sawfish)

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>>108051355
nvm it's e16, just noticed the pager

what desktop do I even use if I want to replicate something like these screenshots? MATE? IceWM? fvwm?

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>>108051373
I think MATE still supports metacity so yeah any of the three you mentioned would work, problem is finding a suitable gtk3 theme now that gtk2 is being killed off

>>108051373
i imagine most of the *box WMs have tons of old themes floating around out there. openbox has a ton, and interestingly, i think they're compatible with labwc if you wanted to try out a newer WM (probably sacrilege to suggest using a wayland-based WM in this thread, though)

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>>108051495
>i think they're compatible with labwc
Nice, if I ever need wayland for some reason I'll look into it

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here's another one from the same fvwm setup >>108051368

>>108051483
>>108051523
>>108051571
>>108051593
>>108051687
>>108051774
>>108051795
Always interesting remembering these UI paradigms that got completely lost to time--roll-up titlebars really just disappeared one day. I know a few DEs still have that feature, but it doesn't seem like anybody uses them anymore. Wonder why they fell out of favor.

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>>108051805
>Wonder why they fell out of favor
Yeah I have no idea, it still feels more comfortable to me to just roll them up instead of minimizing and later having to find them with alt+tab or in the program list

>>108037144
by looking at the shit you play you shouldn't even bother with trying linux. you can't run malware there

>>108051805
>Wonder why they fell out of favor.
I'm not sure either, I use it pretty regularly on my fvwm setup.

>>108052797
Only major problem is BF6, all that other stuff can run assuming you only play GTAV's single player

>>108023739
rice my cock, faggot

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>>108023739

I was always impressed by the ricing done with FVWM way back in 2003:

https://www.fvwm.org/Archive/Screenshots/index6.html

See pic for one example.

>>108036981
It's Panther. Tiger had spotlight search icon on the top right of the menu bar.

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>>108042153
Any themes/DE's that can have these early Aqua styled buttons and stripey windows? Even better if it can have barberpole loading bars. Other than that, I'm not interested in copying/bootlegging the old OSX look.

>>108056008
It's impressive that FVWM is still receiving updates, too:
https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/releases

I was checking out some FVWM rices and came across this thread, which is pretty interesting: https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/srb6km/labwcfvwm3_futureproofing_your_window_manager_a/

Basically a guide to run FVWM (or other X window managers) under Xwayland.

>>108057667
your best bet for any of this nowadays is using qtcurve but sadly it no longer has the kwin theme component so you'd still need to find a tolerable kwin theme with that

>>108023739
Just install Debian with Chicago95 theme on XFCE. Tweak accordingly. If you wanna weeb it up, there's some cool animated mouse replacements. Not super hard.

>>108057667
Plenty of GTK3 and xfce leopard/tiger/aquaish themes out there that do just what you described

>>108042214
window frames are badass, whats that called?

>>108051805
i think it was in favor of moving towards fullscreen experiences rather than windowed. minimizing allows the normal average user to just hide and show brainlessly
sucks because feels less like a sandbox/playground

>>108044190
Moray and Povray are still around I believe

>>108059858
That's OldE-Black for E16

>>108060202
thanks anon

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>>108060284
No problem, it had a bunch of cool themes
https://themes.effx.us/#Themes

>>108051805
I use window shading all the time, but the KDE fags want to get rid of it claiming nobody uses it because no one really talks about it, but they never consider nobody talks about it because it just works and wtf is there to talk about in regards to a basic ass default feature that's been around for decades?
Then again Gnome is trying to do away with titlebars and shit so who knows what these psychopaths are thinking.

>>108060370
>all this cool shit
when did computing go so wrong.

Shit need moar spinnan cubez

>>108061025
agreed
i want to have all that cool compiz shit

>>108051805
I still use it all the time.
For a while now I've had the idea of adding that feature to a dwm-style tiling WM. Roll up a window in the stack and the other windows will fill out the stack accordingly. Would be neat.

pfwoar

http://www.ozones.com/imagesindex.html
http://ender-design.com/rg/backidx.html

>>108023739
This is enlightenment e16, it's still maintained and you can install it. Does anyone know which specific theme is this?

>>108062961
R-9X, cool theme

>>108062331
Cool stuff, anon, it's always nice to find more tiling backgrounds and textures.
https://images.ira.abramov.org/Propaganda/
http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/patterns/
https://github.com/wallace-aph/tiles-and-such
https://github.com/magictoaster/IRIX-tiles
https://github.com/tile-anon/tiles
http://www.xwinman.org/tiles.zip

>>108050258
>>108023739

https://themes.effx.us/packages/e16/R-9X.etheme

There's an Xfce version!

https://www.pling.com/p/1016332/
https://www.pling.com/p/1016169/

>>108057667
Kvantum to the rescue!

https://www.pling.com/p/1686250/

>>108051495
>>108051571
labwc's OpenBox theme support doesn't include gradients so these rice themes won't work.

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>>108061012
It was the iPhone and "Retina Displays". All these meticulously crafted pixel art UIs became completely unusable at HiDPI, so we got flattened vector art turds instead. OSX 10.7, FLAT. Win8, FLAT. GNOME 3, FLAT. KDE 5, FLAT.

Wayland's better dynamic scaling support offers a way back if the themes can be interpreted as "logical pixels" and get scaled with the output, like the contents of windows with DPI-unaware toolkits (or XWayland windows) already are, but last I checked that didn't work right with KDE and GNOME was actively hostile to user theming so it'll require one or more independent compositors to pick up the torch.

>>108059902
>sucks because feels less like a sandbox/playground
That was intentional. They want you to have a television with touch buttons, not a workstation.

>>108051805
window shading was obsoleted by the introduction of windows 95's taskbar, before the taskbar windows were "put away" by either shading them (collapsing them to just their title bar) or iconifying them (turning them into an icon on the desktop). shading is more of an X/unix thing i think, while iconifying can be seen on a few os's, including windows prior to win95

>>108065020
-- and before someone says it, yes, i know that iconifying to a fixed bar wasn't actually invented by win95, that's just when it was popularised