in this thread we post desktops that come from (or pretend to come from) a superior time
>>109244018Wow this is very sexy
>beyondcpSounds promising
>>109244018fvwm
>>109244209frvtiger aero based kino SOVL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>109244260Ok
>>109244245modern remake
>>109244018Still the best Windows version
>>109244219fvwm3 isn't retro
>>109244285>>109244217>>109244214>>109244018HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WORK ON THIS WITHOUT A FUCKING TASKBAR?HOW DO YOU PROGRAM AND MULTI-TASK WITHOUT A TASKBARYOU FUCKING CAN'TI NEED TO HAVE 5 TERMINALS AN IDE 3 FILE EXPLORERS A BROWSER AND A TEXT VIEWER FOR DOCUMENTATION A CHAT CLIENT FOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FROM OTHER PROGRAMMERS AND YET ANOTHER TERMINAL TO COMPILE TO BUILD SERVERTHOSE WINDOWS CAN'T FUCKING FIT IN A WM WITHOUT A TASKBARI DO NOT WANT TO ROLL UP AND UNROLL EVERY FUCKING WINDOW JUST TO DO BASIC SHIT!!!ABSOLUTELY UNUSABLE>>109244220EVEN THIS GUY GOT IT CHOSE TO INSTALL A TASKBAR ON MACOSBECAUSE HE DOES **REAL** WORK! LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE FUCKING ICONS
>>109244298wasn't there a config?
>>109244735>HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WORK ON THIS WITHOUT A FUCKING TASKBAR?its called a keyboard
>>109244505It's a shame that almost all the unsigned themes for XP just vanished into the ether over the years.
>>109246979Yes.
You're welcome
>>109248207looks amazing
>>109248207i love u anon
OpenBSD.
>>109248537did he stop reviewing headphones?
>>109244245>ph34r t3h cute ones.what happened to l33tspeak anyway
I miss litestep.I also miss BBLean
>>109244245Is Megatokyo still going?I haven't checked it in a very, very long time. I thought it went downhill when it all devolved into Piro's romcom bullshit.
>>109244209time when 1 dolar was a enquivalent to 1 brazillian bucks.
>>109249191last update was in September 2014
>>109244260zoomer speak
>>109249701maybe moving it to linux could keep it alive
>>109244260relax dude
>>109244018i came!!!!
>>109244018what an inactive thread, i thought there were plenty of fruitynegro ayyhrrodynamic enthusiasts that happen to be born after 2004 on /g/here's openbsd with fvwm
>>109253944what about this makes it le retro?
>>109244018Wtf is GLUEHEAAT?
>>109254479yinyangs are retro
>>109254746>that fucking taskbari forgot windows doesn't have workspaces
>>109244505baby duck!
>>109244735>he thinks these people actually do anything on their computers besides take screenshots of their desktop
>>109244018YEESSSSS
>>109244298>megatokyo wallpaper
I kinda miss mepis. It was a great little distro
I should install blackbox and set it up today. That was my favorite WM back in the late 90s - early 00s
>>109244735Segregated workspaces. At least that's how I do it; I have a workspace for programming. This is where I tile a terminal emulator running vim, a terminal emulator for compilers, a terminal emulator for heretek. Then I've got a workspace for "social", which has my email client, irc client, and BBSes. Then I've got a "control center" workspace (actually Hyprland scratch pad workspace) that's got rustnet, btop, jolt and my custom fork of iotop where certain things are colorized by priority running so I can monitor network activity, power consumption, individual processes, and disk i/o at a glance with meta+s, etc. This also helps tremendously when I'm taking a little time off addies to let my tolerance reset and switch to LSD micro dosing because it allows me to 'tunnel' and not get distracted. Like shit on IRC won't distract me when I'm trying to finish code on a deadline.
>>109258207>tumblr
>>109258352WOWhow did you know??
>>109258424Funny enough I remember that Revolutions Pack 9 theme. It somehow always would have a glitch, where instead of the font used there (I believe Tahoma) it'd show up in Times New Roman for whatever reason. It gave it an unique touch that's for sure.
>>109244201These icons, this bitmap font, oh my god, so much soul
>>109257871Brown!
Old gnome setup on my primary server when I ran an Internet radio station and VPS/Shell/MU* hosting service. I had a total of 15 servers but one of the most fun parts was my personal machine ran gentoo and I had my whole cluster set up with DistCC and would have 10 servers with 2xXeon X5650 CPUs. 120 cores, 240 threads. I ended up cutting it down to just 3 servers because the storage r/w speed and network speed were bottlenecking the compilation speed.
It's nice having a thread without someone chimping out about everyone running something that isn't shartix
>>109249664>time when 1 dolar was a enquivalent to 1 brazillian bucks.Today?
>>109244018Windows 10 IoT LTSC 2021.
MacOS 8.1 (1998)Win98 (1998)IRIX 6.5 (1998)this is where it peaked (aesthetically)
No BeOS love?
>>109244219cosy desktop. can you show how to do the icon tray with carousel controls on fvwm? cheers
>>109259184coole
>>109244735i dont have a taskbar either and i'm not using a retro OS/WMi just abuse the Super key and the Alt + Tab shortcut, and it's very fast
Experimenting with TDE in a VM before committing it to bare metal. CloudFlare isn't letting me post from Pale Moon at the moment.
>>109259017You can recreate this almost exactly right now with the Trinity desktop environment.
>>109260698This isn't BeOs nor is it retro
Seeing the Opera browser in a lot of these screenshots has really taken me back.
>>109262127Back before it was shit. I loved Opera so much in the early 2000s
>>109262214Same. It was even used as the web browser on the Nintendo DS and the Wii.
somewhat
>>109262279Nope
>Classic theme in Windows 11 is a 40+ steps hackGrimm
>>109244735holy fucking retard uses a mouse for everything and acts like she knows how to use a computer
>>109262125The security model sure is. I also went out of my way to set up the actual BeOS decorator here, this is not a basic Haiku theme.
>>109244600it's fvwm2
>>109262805I'm glad we agree its not BeOS and not retro
>>109261423what's retro about this?
Here you go, screenshot straight from 2005.
>>109263310Fluxbox is from 2001.
>>109257794how great MEPIS Linux was ?
>>109259260rent free
>>109263328>Rozen MaidenBased
>>109263423It was a distro that tried to be an option for both newbies who wanted to try something other than Windows, but with options for people who wanted a solid workstation. It was unfortunate that it came out only a short while before Ubuntu. Mepis survived on donations and word of mouth, but Ubuntu had corporate backing so they were able to devour most of the user base at the time. When Ubuntu first hit the scene, you either ran fedora, ubuntu, or gentoo if you were part of the "core" user base of Linux. Sure, there were outliers running straight debian, or slackware, or gentoo, even a few that refused to switch from the last non-enterprise release of red hat (fedora was only about a year old at this point) but you were definitely considered "fringe" if you didn't run one of the main distros. Mepis was on the verge of being a main distro rather than fringe, but Ubuntu fucked that. The Ubuntu advertising logic being "if you're going to use a debian derived distro, wouldn't you rather use one with enterprise level support? Here, we'll send you a bunch of CDs to pass out at your next LUG meet." So mepis fell to the wayside and went DEEP fringe, with a bunch of users forking it to antiX, which was/is tied to antifa.
>>109263806I just woke up and haven't had my coffee yet. Gentoo was a "core" distro, i meant sabayon in place of gentoo in the "fringe" distros. A fully binary based gentoo deriv that never made any sense to me... Why? Gentoo's entire use case is building a kernel and all of the packages for your specific hardware configuration. Why run gentoo where everything is pre-compiled for someone else's machine?
>>109244018>>109244285>>109248537>>109248545>>109248850>>109253241>>109254902>>109254954>>109254963>>109254970surely there must be ways to recreate some of these?both the windows but especially the linux/bsd ones
>Even linux desktops got lamer and less creative over time compared to how they used to beWhat the fuck happened?
>>109244018If have a picture as your desktop wallpaper - you aren't working in front of your pc
>>109264184>New Folder (9)>random images on the desktopWere you not embarrassed taking this screenshot? Makes sense you don't understand the idea of wallpapers.
>>109244018https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/
My personal project for the past few weeks.
>>109264144Evolution results in simplicity
>>109264328I think his point was that you shouldn't actually ever see your wallpaper, because all of your work should be covering your desktop or some bullshit
>>109264457>jeet os>riverwm>fishmehworse of all is that irix actually used x11 so youre sadly a tinkertranny abomination
>>109263129>not retroIt fits the definition of retro to a tee.
>>109244735tags, or their inferior cousin workspaces
>>109264854>riverwmNot what I'm using.>irix actually used x11Sure, and Maxx desktop can be used if you want to stick with that and get updates maybe once a year.This is for me to use and have control over the functionality.
does anyone remember mokoufag? are his desktops old enough to be considered retro now?
>>109264457>wlrixis that your own compositor/wm?
>>109244018that looks pretty cool
>>109265013>does anyone remember mokoufag?yes>are his desktops old enough to be considered retro now?not yet
>>109265014My own compositor plus companion apps, yes. Still early, but I plan to run it on my desktop once it's more daily drivable.
>>109264091>the linux/bsd onesyou can still run enlightenment 16>>109265013Not much has changed since he stopped posting. The only major difference is that people stopped using bitmap fonts because nothing supports them anymore
>>109264948>Modern OS is retroOK buddy
>>109254857Why would you need workspaces when you can just combine and stack everything on taskbar. Pretty sure even Win2000 has option like that.
>>109265135I mean, i see his point; beos did come out in 2002, so that kinda counts. A few of these desktops are modern OSes running old WMs or themes to make them look like an old OS, so i think beos qualifies
>>109265835you are going to destroy your eyes with those font settings
>>109254479it looks like shit
>>109265659Its not BeOS. It doesn't count.
>>109265659>beos did come out in 2002No it didnt>A few of these desktops are modern OSes running old WMs or themes to make them look like an old OSGreat>so i think beos qualifiesLiterally Read his screencap. Its not BeOS
>>109244219>>109260712>>109265835based
>>109266173I meant haiku, and yes it did. February of 2002. Before it was Haiku it was literally called OpenBeOS but they changed the name to Haiku to avoid legal issues.
>>109266380I'm glad we agree that nothing you just said before was accurate.
>>109259672hello aubrey :p
>>109266495You're delusional if you think that's what is happening. Haiku counts as retro just as much as any other modern OS in this thread using an old WM or WM theme to make it look old. Development on OpenBeOS started within 24 hours of BeOS being sold to Palm. Haiku is OpenBeOS. And the first public release was in 2002. So Haiku counts.
>>109262125>in this thread we post desktops that come from (or pretend to come from) a superior timemeh. close enough. BeOS theme on fuckin' n00buntu would be close enough so haiku is fine
>>109244735This will come as a shocker but computers back in the 90's and early 2000's frequently crashed so people didn't run one or two more things at a time.
>>109268169today you can recreate that experience with modern kde
>>109268301>>109268274iris... peak
>>109268169If that was your experience, I feel bad for you. I ran like 3 xterm windows, mmucl, bitchx, naim, xmms, web browser and a bunch of other shit on a machine with 96MB RAM and a 300MHz celeron and didn't have crashing issues. >>109257794 was 2003-2004 iirc. And that was the machine that replaced the 300MHz. That one was 666MHz with 256MB RAM and a 32MB ATi Rage Fury graphics card, and I'm running a ton of shit in that screenshot. I don't remember all of the icons, but off the top of my head I've got bluefish, gimp, frozen bubble, aterm, naim/pidgin, firefox, xmms, imagemagick, whatever I used to burn CDs back then, and whatever I used to watch and rip DVDs, can't remember. Granted, most of the shit running is minimized because I only had a 1280x1024 CRT but you could definitely run as much stuff as you wanted in the late 90s-early 00s as long as you had the RAM for it. I wouldn't have tried that on Windows 98 or XP back then because I'd have been out of my 256MB RAM after just starting up the machine and opening Firefox but that was the golden age for linuxfags
>>109265981nta but why
reposting the best desktop I've seen in the desktop threads
pretty sure this is the same guy >>109269066
>>109269083may i have the dots for this :)
For a short period of time, Tandy Deskmate was second behind Windows.
>>109266907Sorry you're wrong and upset.
>>109269694Show me where I'm wrong.
>>109269806>>109269694
>>109269816K. So you can't. Gotcha.
About 5 mins of messing with xfce to make it look like w95. Still got a way to go yet, but it's a start
>>109269819>>109269694
>>109269845>>109269806
>>109269857
Watch him reply again because he can't let it go
flamewar in the retro thread, sounds to me like you guys arent using linux for niggers
>>109268362I was talking more along the terms of Classic Mac or Win 9x which barely had memory protection.
>>109269092Is it possible to have this text shadow in new terminal emulators?
>>109271419Wezterm and terminology both support shadow afaik
>>109244018Post it without the shitty details, only the world map
>>109271943The "shitty details" are his wm.
>>109269651transparent windows over water really look incredible
>>109271972How old are you dude
>>109272381What does that have to do with anything?
>>109272409The easiest way would be to ask AI when X11R6 was released and then post a screenshot. But people lose their mind over AI, so I'll just post this.
Is there any Wayland compositor that looks remotely close to these fellas?
>>109272442Oh no shit. Nice. I just assumed he was running some map software in enlightenment with a really obnoxious theme. Thanks m8. Also, fuck people who get mad about AI. It's a tool, and a very useful one. Maybe I'm just too boomer but I grew up on William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs and Harlan Ellison. I still use IRC and BBSes running on 80s-90s hardware to this day.Speaking of... Contribootan' to thread. aBSiNTHE BBS is still one of the best out there
>>109272581Good stuff anon
>>109272827Thinking about starting a /g/ BBS on an old shitty machine I've got laying around but my ISP locks everything down so the only way to self host is to run a reverse proxy, so at that point I've already got to pay for a VPS, i might as well host the BBS there instead of an early 2000s machine for authenticity.
>>109272962That sounds super cool dude. Be sure to keep us posted and maybe make a thread about it.
>>109269068What program is that one on the right side of the clock to launch programs?
>>109272532cow maybe? https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow or wlmaker https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker
>>109264457>https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fontsHere's sgi-screen bitmap font so you don't need to use that awful terminal font.
>>109274678Thanks. Definitely fits better and the JP symbols are good enough.
>>109274993I don't remember what the titlebar/toolchest fonts were in Irix, probably Helvetica.Maxxidesktop has a reference but it has some weird stuff going on, didn't like to use it...Some guy made thishttps://github.com/rhaleblian/pirixHaven't tested it.
>>109269092Mind sharing your Enlightenment config?
>>109244018
I have a lot of sentimental feelings towards a lot of these desktops from 2000-2008 that feature AIM, MSN, ICQ etc in a single client. Everyone is on Discord now and more connected than ever but I just felt closer to the ones I would chat to on AIM than I ever do via Discord.
>>109277097I came across that too after I had started. I know it still needs a lot to be closer to IRIX, I'm still in the early stages getting it actually usable daily before I go polishing the look.Maxx was fine for me, but it definitely has a lot going on. The lack of updates and breaking of other apps made me move away. I also want to actually keep using HDR with my monitors.
>>109278962Let's hope your project will turn into something tangible!
>>109278579https://gofile.io/d/TveH7o
>>109259507Frutiger Aero.. i miss it
>>109244219pape plz
>>109244018Why did this kind of ricing totally die out? Every fucking riced desktop has been the exact same for a decade or more now--tiling window manager, a bunch of terminals, flat colors, maybe some blur or transparency. I understand that general design trends (unfortunately) went the way of flatshit, but why did custom themes follow as well? Even the nicer looking "modern" rices are often just someone using a WM & applying a theme from 20 years ago.
>>109269879kek
>>109269878lol dis nigga. replies to every single person that says hes wrong then tells someone else they cant let it go. never change 4chan
>>109254746>Counter-Strike WaRzOnEBased>>109265981Bitmap fonts like Terminus with bright colors are the best fonts if you can (or in fact have to) decrease the brightness (to save battery) and you have low resolution.>>109268169Crazy to think web browsers didn't even have tabs when I was a kid. When Firefox got tabs it was game changing.
>>109282963nvm the enlarged image doesn't render at full quality. the fonts are crispy.
>>109268403the fuck...is that even a real system!?
>>109283199No it's ai slop and you are retarded, please consider suicide
>>109268403>>109283199most likely ai
>>109263328Why were you using Windows Server?
>>109281137OP's image looks nice but it doesn't really say: daily drive. In terms of functionality and look Windows and KDE and maybe even Mac peaked.
this doesn't really count
>>109282747And there it is
>>109283253> an icon theme and wallpaper on a windows XP screenshot is "AI slop"Go outside dude
>>109285829I love Netscage Navigator, Stonical to Decas III, and AGL 40 (AOL's biggest rival). Also my computer has a beter Aetheric Connection than yours, so Ha.
>>109286260Incomprehensible
