Anybody miss Windows 98 ?

[mintfan7200]

I had used Windows 3.1 and the early Mac OS , but Windows 95 was when I got more into computers . Windows 98 SE was my favorite though it was such a great OS . I miss the classic look of Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 anybody else feel the same ?

[neel3]

A whole library of "Looks", including some classic ones.
http://netrunner-mag.com/whats-on-the-menu/

[sudodus]

I grew up with the command line (punched cards, punched tape, teletype terminals, 'dumb' text terminals) and I was around when the first IBM compatible computers appeared. I did not think Windows was stable until NT and not really nice until XP. But Windows 95 was a big step forward from the previous versions and 98 was even better, nice with USB, but not really stable.

I was also learning UNIX long time ago, so it was not too difficult to convert to linux.

But I can [multi]boot Windows 98 in an old IBM Thinkcentre for old PC games, some of which do not work in newer operating systems

[mintfan7200]

I grew up with the command line (punched cards, punched tape, teletype terminals, 'dumb' text terminals) and I was around when the first IBM compatible computers appeared. I did not think Windows was stable until NT and not really nice until XP. But Windows 95 was a big step forward from the previous versions and 98 was even better, nice with USB, but not really stable.

I was also learning UNIX long time ago, so it was not too difficult to convert to linux.

But I can [multi]boot Windows 98 in an old IBM Thinkcentre for old PC games, some of which do not work in newer operating systems

Now you are a true oldschool computer user , very interesting indeed . Punched cards I have heard of them how did you use them back then or how did they work ? You wrote programs or commands with them right ?

[mintfan7200]

Anybody know of any Windows 98 or Windows 95 themes for xfce ? It would be cool to have my os looking like Windows 98 or Windows 95 .

[monkeybrain20122]

Anybody know of any Windows 98 or Windows 95 themes for xfce ? It would be cool to have my os looking like Windows 98 or Windows 95 .

I am sure there are, but 'cool' is not the word I would use. I know a guy running Mandrake (?) with the Trinity DE (kde3), it is an abomination. You may like the look and feel of it.

[trent.josephsen]

Anybody know of any Windows 98 or Windows 95 themes for xfce ? It would be cool to have my os looking like Windows 98 or Windows 95 .

Redmond is the name you're looking for.

For the full effect: in the Appearance window, set the Gtk theme to Redmond and disable images on buttons (under the Settings tab), then go into the window manager settings and choose Redmond there too. The various tweaks necessary to make the panel appear at the bottom of the screen and act like the Windows 98 taskbar are fairly obvious, right down to changing "Applications Menu" to "Start". Of course it's easy to make icons on the desktop and call them My Computer, Recycle Bin etc.

It's still not quite right... the fonts are wrong, for one, although those were mostly themeable in W98 so you could argue that point. I also don't think Windows 98 had antialiasing in window decorations.

All the icons are still wrong, of course, but there's only so much you can do... perhaps you could obtain a 98-esque icon set somewhere. But maybe that's going to extremes.

My desktop pretty much works exactly like Windows 98. I have it themed in a way I find more pleasant to look at, and there's the workspace switcher on the right side of the panel, but by and large it hasn't needed to change much. I use what works.

[sudodus]

The punched cards were used when I learned Algol (a programming language similar to C) at college. It did not make me happy, I hated the long waiting time between each attempt to run between the debugging sessions

Punched cards had 80 positions. Each card represented a text line with max 80 characters (of programming code or input data) and they were stacked in card readers.

[Iowan]

The punched cards were used when I learned Algol (a programming language similar to C) at college. It did not make me happy, I hated the long waiting time between each attempt to run between the debugging sessions

Punched cards had 80 positions. Each card represented a text line with max 80 characters (of programming code or input data) and they were stacked in card readers.

I still have a box (or two) of them. Fortran programs: 1" stack, Assembler: 4", Cobol: 8 - 18"

I also have a machine at work still running W95.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

The punched cards were used when I learned Algol (a programming language similar to C) at college. It did not make me happy, I hated the long waiting time between each attempt to run between the debugging sessions ...

I was doing FORTRAN back then. Someone would forget the END card on their deck; so, your deck would go back in the queue again. Another long wait for some vague error message. Did you number your cards or draw a diagonal line down the side of the deck so you could get them back in proper order if you dropped them?