Windows 98 Icons are Great (alexmeub.com)

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[-] stratts@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

This might be a bit off topic, but Windows 98, and to a lesser extent Windows XP and 7, always evoke a sense of nostalgic simplicity for me. The OS felt stable (as in, unchanging) and seemed to stay out of the way.

Since Windows 8, but especially with Windows 10 and 11, it's felt complicated, busy, and intrusive.

[-] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I think the biggest problem is that, since 8, Windows has basically been trying to be two separate OSes, with two entirely different use paradigms, and it doesn't work. And having multiple control panels, configs, etc. makes things messy and confusing.

[-] Kasion@lemmy.mackners.com 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of this has to do with the dedication to legacy support that created these two design paradigms.

[-] halvdan@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and that it actually is two very different operating systems who sort of "merged" into one some 20 odd years ago, even if the base was NT and not 98/ME. They have tried to keep both paradigms alive since then, so it's a long standing MS tradition.