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[–] 88 points 1 year ago (17 children)

We had transparent UI elements before and decided they were shit. Am I the only one still alive to remember?

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't remember vista being bad because of the translucency

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Na that was actually liked.being buggy, slow and having poor driver support at launch killed it. Windows 7 which was just polished Windows Vista was very popular.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    but it took developers forever to update and stop constantly writing to sensitive OS locations.

    They still haven't done that in 2025, Windows file locations are by far the worst part of it as an operation system for an average user?

    Is it in C:/Users//? How about in the Documents folder? No, AppData/Local maybe? AppData/LocalLow or AppData/Roaming?

    Maybe it created a root folder on my hard drive, Intel and NVIDIA love to do that? Did it just dump data in my registry (thanks Adobe)? Maybe it's in the installation location in Program Files, or with the 32-bit updater app in Program Files (x86)?

    Who the fuck even knows anymore at this point, just write directly into System32 for all I care

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I liked them.

    Thats why i still use them on kde.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I had to stop using them because my old laptop just cant keep up anymore 😪

    I might have to replace it next year.... good ol gal. She has been the same Arch install for almost 10 years

    good laptops are like pets, they only last for a little while but some will be remember for how much joy they gave you

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When did we decide they were shit?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, they are quite bad from a UI/accessibility perspective. While looking nice and fancy, it can be difficult to read the contents and makes it harder to identify information. That's totally fine as an optional feature for those who like it, but the default should be a clean and easily accessible design.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The contrast is preserved if when a light theme is applied the text is black (because the background is usually bright) and vice versa but yes there should be an easily accessible option and that was provided by the non transparent aero theme.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's expensive but I used Stardock on Windows. Specifically the bundle so I can use Fences and WindowFX. You can customise the hell out of Windows with their software, highly recommend. Free options do not come close.

    Doesn't fix YouTube UI though.

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