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0 pointsinigyou5d ago0 comments

It's interesting how many people don't like the XP theme. I think it was cool, it was productive yet colorful, but I have to wonder if that's just because it arrived when I was at a certain life stage, the same way I had no problem with the COVID lockdown. We used XP in high school computer class the whole time I was there.

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BirAdam5d ago· 2 in thread

It was change. People don’t like change.

inigyouOP5d ago

Ah, yeah, I can see how if you had worked with the 9x theme for 10 years you'd prefer it didn't change. (Conversely I don't think anyone is clamoring for the 3.1 theme back) But XP did include that theme and it was pretty simple to select it.

nailer5d ago

It was directional and trendy - which meant it was short lasting. Like building your UI based on floaty 3D shapes 5 years ago, except these days it's much easier to change when you start to look silly.

hulitu4d ago· 1 in thread

In the good Microsoft tradition, you had programs where this theme will not be applied, just like in Win 10 and 11, leading to inconsistencies.

pjerem4d ago

It was much, much, more coherent.

Also there was a trick which I don't remember that allowed to apply the theme on all applications.

Now, the notion of theme don't even exists anymore. It's just web and css and branding colors for whatever software you run.

I for my part didn't like the sparse selection of colors. Blue, silver, green, but nothing reddish. But later there came the Zune theme and it was awesome (silver-black with orange X buttons).

I always put XP into "Classic Mode"

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