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    [–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    The beauty of an open system is that you can do pretty much whatever you want in it.

    The horror of an open system is that you can do pretty much whatever you want in it.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

    I have thought about setting up screenshots for, and creating /c/unix_gorn , but aint nobody got time for that

    I don't get the hate, I use aerothemeplasma every day I think its neat

    [–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

    how does this work, is this using WINE with ReactOS components and Windows 7 components or something similar?

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    tl;dr of how this clusterfuck works: this is effectively just x11 forwarding an x server from windows to linux. the fun part is a) making gnome run with an already existing window manager (namely dwm.exe lol), b) making gnome run over x11 forwarding (it is Not a fan, last time it tried running gnome on windows this is what broke it and made it quit trying), and c) actually ripping out parts of the gnome compositor again to make dwm instead of gnome render window decorations to achieve ✨️aero gnome✨️

    https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/115912436861018228

    [–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 7 hours ago

    Oh I get it now.
    Thanks!

    [–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

    I both love it and hate it so much.

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago
    [–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 35 points 20 hours ago

    They are making even more cursed stuff but I haven't found a download yet... But they managed to get the taskbar to show up https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/115912856935158763 8hours ago from me commenting

    [–] 4grams@awful.systems 110 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    This is cursed, unnecessary, unexpected and impressive all at the same time.

    [–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 23 hours ago

    Ie half of the themes out there

    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 7 points 15 hours ago

    Honestly hate all the attempts at recreating aero in linux so maybe I should try to do this in kde.

    [–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 137 points 1 day ago

    composited by the real dwm.exe

    Okay, that's fucking cool.

    [–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)
    [–] verstra@programming.dev 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but I think it is speaking in first person, about itself. So it should be "I saw" and "I think", regardless of its pronouns in third person.

    [–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

    Yeah that's what confused me

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

    Some people, for reasons I can only speculate on, don't like speaking in first person singular. In most cases that I've seen, they use "we". I don't necessarily agree with the practice from a linguistic perspective, the English language is already a garbage fire as it is without introducing more ambivalent speech... but then I also want to go back to using "thou" for second person singular, so I'm probably not qualified to speak on the matter.

    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

    Nope. Thou is just superior. The fact there is no distinction between second person singular and plural is fucked up.

    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

    *its (not it's)

    Edit: actually the whole thing should be:

    its pronouns are it/it

    (first "it" corresponds to "he", "she",

    second "it" corresponds to "him", "her")

    [–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

    That was autocorrect Β¬_Β¬

    [–] rapchee@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

    makes sense from a catgirl

    [–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I both love, and hate this. Thanks.

    [–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

    Absolutely came here to say this. It's so abrasive that I want it just to flaunt.

    [–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 69 points 1 day ago

    They even got the good version of Aero that doesn't add weird white stripes to the glass, and instead let's it just be blurry.

    [–] eli@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

    I see the mastodan handle, but is there a git or anything to pull try out myself? Would be hilarious to show this to some coworkers

    [–] Takeshidude@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    I daily drive AeroThemePlasma by WackyIdeas. Theres also a link to CapWin96's (I think thats their name) fork for Vista themeing there.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    I miss Aero but I don't know if I can go back to a light theme.

    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 points 16 hours ago

    The great thing about it being KDE is that you can choose a dark colour scheme but keep the title bar theming, icons, fonts, etc the same :)

    [–] markz@suppo.fi 37 points 1 day ago

    Thanks, I love it

    [–] flamingos@feddit.uk 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    Finally, a settlement to the CSD vs SSD debate we can all be unhappy with.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

    Who would sacrifice Christopher Street Day for an SSD? Not even worth debating.

    [–] YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 29 points 1 day ago

    This is the most cursed thing I've ever laid eyes on

    [–] Leminski@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

    Oh my word.

    [–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago

    Themes: you can, you shouldn’t, but you will.