• Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    Yep. It feels weird to be nostalgic for windows 7, but it was honestly not bad. I think the reason why the loss of aero glass feels cold and sterile is because it honestly is. The whole metro/material design thing is just garbage. I don’t want buttons that look like abstract squares, I want buttons that look like buttons. What brain-dead designer honestly likes minimal design over skeumorphism?

    • xep@fedia.io
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      5 months ago

      I’m no designer (although I might be brain-dead), but I prefer minimalist UI over skeumorphism.

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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        5 months ago

        Eh, I was being hyperbolic when I probably shouldn’t have been. It just feels very lifeless to me. I understand the arguments for it, it just feels soulless and lifeless.

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I had good times with windows 7. It felt good.

    But my heart was with the tonka-toy hot mess of XP and themed winamp skins.

    One of the main reasons I bailed to Linux is that I got so bored of staring at 10s functional but personality-less interface (which struggled even within it’s own constraints to provide a useable darkmode and a non-eye-searing bright mode).

    And now I have simple, but human. It’s like wearing a tailored suit rather than one off the rack, and in this drawn out analogy, I think XP was like having fun in the dress up box at the back of a charity store.