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   Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 10:23:49 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

   I was doing tech support for a WISP in the '00s and my annoyance with having to deal with customers on Windows XP before "Wireless Zero Config" was added in Service Pack 2 almost makes me hate it more than Windows ME. Almost. Big ridden 💩, but it got me using Linux, so I guess that's one hood thing about it.

   I've never used Vista, 8, or 8.1.

   Oh, also the Fischer-Price default theme for XP was bad.

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     mr_daemon (mr_daemon@untrusted.website)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 15:37:25 JST mr_daemon

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     @ryanc Prior to XP and Luna, the late Whistler betas had a theme called Watercolor that was honestly just gorgeous. It's disappearance is the most egregious thing.

     This is what they took from us. I mean look at it. It's so clean and tasteful, with just the right amount of playful and whimsy. An ideal evolution from Windows 2000. Also came in green IIRC, but I may be conflating with the fan remake that came out years later.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 17:52:03 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     • mr_daemon
     • F4GRX Sébastien

     @f4grx @mr_daemon yeah, same, I'm certain I saw a Linux window manager frame based on this

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     F4GRX Sébastien (f4grx@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 17:52:04 JST F4GRX Sébastien

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     • mr_daemon

     @mr_daemon @ryanc i've seen this in linux somewhere, iirc.