[Cinnamon] “Retro Heresy: Service Pack 1”

After my last post, I got some suggestions. AND I LOVED 'EM!

Now with audio! https://bolha.tube/w/wNV9TTvPYPVNHoPPtTu54g

Keep in mind this is STILL my work computer. I’ve installed Tibia and Quake just for the LOLZ. Had mixed reactions from my colleagues. So… mission accomplished? :P

Theme and Icons: https://b00merang-project.github.io/
Wallpaper: https://wallpapers.microsoft.design/ “Nostalgic Scenes Collection”
Audio: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/windowsxpstartup_201910

cc @unixporn

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
    20•9 months ago

    You can go ahead and sign me the fuck up for whatever that is that’s skinned like Winamp. That is functional, right? Not just part of the desktop image?

    • Thiago, JediOP
      15•9 months ago

      @dual_sport_dork it’s a player called Audacious. It is fully functional. It is available in every distro I know.

      To style it like this, download any winamp skin (*.wsz) and put it on \~/.local/share/audacious/Skins

      And I mean any winamp skin. I follow @winampskins for new ideas.

      @unixporn

      • @mihntEnglish
        8•9 months ago

        Here, OP. More winamp skins than you could ever want.

        That website lets you try the skins before you download them too.

        @dual_sport_dork

  • @owenfromcanadaEnglish
    12•9 months ago

    Windows XP was a good, solid OS. Not FOSS, obviously, but I imagine most people would remember it fondly. Not heresy, maybe just some mild blasphemy.

    • JessicaEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      I remember hating and resisting the upgrade from Windows 98 SE. It took a while for me to realize that our budget PC was the bottleneck…

    • Thiago, JediOP
      4•9 months ago

      @vsh it should. And with Gnome and Xfce too. I found Cinnamon to be the best for this as it has already pretty close defaults to use as a base.

      The b00merang project is a little stale right now, but I never had problems with their skins.

      @unixporn

  • @blotz
    6•9 months ago

    You need to skin the login manager as well! It’s the only thing missing now!

  • Thiago, JediOP
    4•9 months ago

    By the way… Thank you @unixporn community for the suggestions.

    I honestly thought I would receive some hate for “transform linux in windows”, but instead you were so helpful. You rock!

    I love the fediverse.

  • Diplomjodler
    2•9 months ago

    I shall now go and try to close vim as penance for setting eyes on this foul abomination.