There's nothing wrong with tuning your UI to match one you're more comfortable with. Thats the beauty of Linux.

Windows 8.. or Windows 11 😬

There is a scale of psychopathy...

I tweak my linux so it becomes a prison for anyone that boots that isn't me, we are not the same.

What's wrong with wanting a UI you're used to?

Everyone wants other people to switch to Linux until they do literally anything a purist wouldn't do with their own personal setup 😅

I tweak my Linux to look like TempleOS.

Well, first I tweak my windows to mimic the appearance of the windows that I liked, windows 7. Then I tweak my Linux to mimic that.

Just because hurr durr windows bad, doesn't mean their huge team of UI and UX designers didn't ever come up with a good design. And like most things Microsoft, I take pleasure in pirating it when I can.

hey don't sleep on chicago95

I went in the far opposite direction, I tried to make Mint look like an entirely fictional OS, of the sort that might be seen in a video game.

There is a heckuva lot to be said for the classic "start" category based app menu, tied to a task bar. XFCE, MATE, OpenBox, all draw from a paradigm established in the Windows 95 design.

I use Windows from Scratch. I built all the bloatware and telemtry myself, god damn it!

I use KDE because it looks like Windows 10... also gnome feet.

I tweaked my KDE desktop to look like XFCE.
What does that make me?

I frequently compare my XFCE setup to Windows 95. The job of an OS is to run programs.

I made my KDE desktop look like Windows 7 and I like it

I always loved the MacOS UI, so I emulate it in Linux. The visuals without the OS itself is just 👌

Yeah gatekeeping is exactly how we get people to try Linux...

Ooh wait, that's the opposite.

Let people use Linux however they want. That's the whole point of the OS family, it's incredibly customisable

Anyone with handwriting that meticulous is the real psycho

Thats fine its your linux.

Linux Mint was designed to deliver a smooth landing from Windows, and if you're the type of guy to have a problem with it, then the entire FOSS communtiy is gonna have a problem with you, because you're making it harder for people to escape from corporate solutions.

It was funny the first 5000 times I saw someone do it, but now it feels like I'm on a 5th date with someone who is still going on a monologue about epicly owning their bitch ex.

Win 7's interface was good for a number of reasons and that's why my UI looks even more like it than the stock Cinnamon themes, which are already a deliberate rip-off.

If that makes people think me a psycho, so be it.

Having grown up with a Mac before OS X came out, I liked that I could make XFCE look a bit more like OS 9, but I haven't been able to find a suitable equivalent for kde yet.

I might give a Windows 7 theme a try. As much as I hate Microsoft, I've been feeling unusually nostalgic for 7. That one was kind of peak for gaming.

meanwhile I'm over here making NixOS look like NeXTStep

I tweaked to look like windows xp, loved the retro feeling

Now, now, are we talking windows 11 or XP?