Thoughts on XPDE?

**mstlyevil** · February 19th, 2006

My personal take on this is if you want the XP interface then just use XP. IMHO Gnome, KDE and XFCE can be made to look much nicer than the Luna interface on XP. Why stick with the same old same old when you have the ability with Linux to have a slick desktop that is all your own and reflects your personality.

**UbuWu** · February 20th, 2006

The last release was August 21st 2004... no development after that...

**mstlyevil** · February 20th, 2006

Originally Posted by UbuWu

The last release was August 21st 2004... no development after that...

I just can not figure out why they never got popular. {/sarcasm}

**steveneddy** · March 13th, 2006

Originally Posted by fuscia

check out the thread title, chief. LOL!

OK - whatever.......don't get your panties in a twist, ok?

**skunkpit** · May 30th, 2006

i just installed this out of boredom to see what its about

and just the desktop background alone

made me almost lose my lunch

so many horrid memories

trying to fix my girlfriends xp install from a trojan

i finally fix everything.. but there was a permanent problem with the ntfs file system.. no amounts of defragmentation with the os loaded or not could fix the order of that file system

contemplating formatting.. then said "**** IT"
your using linux
period.

started her on gentoo she was getting the hang of some aspects, but mainly asked me how to do stuff

i recently started learning more about ubuntu/debian then switched her to ubuntu dapper now she's learning a bit more and isnt as intimidated

sorry i gradually strayed off topic here

**Fred Doolie** · June 21st, 2006

Originally Posted by mcduck

think it's better to have different UI for different OS.

Exactly. If I were to sit my XP-Loving daughter in front of my Linux system and try to teach her Linux I'd use any GUI except XPde. That way she'd be working with a different OS that *looks* like a different OS. I can just hear her if I used XPde: "Your Windows XP is way messed up! Nothing works right! "

To paraphrase (and mangle) an old saying:
Gnome (KDE, Xfde, JWM....) looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. XPde looks like a duck and moos like a cow".

**aysiu** · June 21st, 2006

In case anyone's curious what the lack-of-fuss is about, I wrote a quick install script for XPDE in Ubuntu:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/xpde

I also give uninstall commands... because you'll probably want to uninstall it right after you look at it. It's not even a good XP imitation, honestly. The icons still look very KDE.