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    5 months ago

    The icons made your eyes twitch, but the Vista didn’t?

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        5 months ago

        Lol, dude should just slip in some skinned-up Linux Mint. Dad’s mind would be blown because OMG it’s so fast now!

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            5 months ago

            Funny, because this looks a lot like how Longhorn did/was supposed to. Very pretty for its time.

            Longhorn broke my heart, and I haven’t used Windows since (except to play Fallout)

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                Beta testing Longhorn, and it’s failure, just killed my last ounce of faith in MS. I went and bought a Mac after that, lol.

                TBH, being into Macs are what got me into UNIX and Linux, though, so that’s something.

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                  A while back I wanted to make a Longhorn-style fork of Haiku (imo the sweet spot between windows and linux), although I ended up quitting because it was too much work

                  Here are some mockups

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                    Now I’m trying to imagine Haiku, but with that Aero glass theme.