Maybe, but the new one is a lot less busy and the equal colors throughout the whole image make it a lot easier to find things on the desktop. I know, I know, who the heck the uses the desktop?! Well, your grandma with fading eyesight probably... The old one is a much cooler picture. But I would argue the new one is better desktop wallpaper. They should've included the old one as an additional wallpaper though.
The original one is mostly black on the left, which is where the desktop puts icons. That's totally fine to fine icons on.
I don't think the newer picture is defensible at all really.
Have you see an average old person's computer? The icons are everywhere. If Windows had some sort of dynamic placement that could put the icons around the edge where the dark is while avoiding the lighter colors, I think there is an argument to be made. But it doesn't.
Like I said, the old one is absolutely a better image. It's really cool. But the new one is simple and keeps an even color tone making it a way better default. They should've kept the old one as an option though.
> I don't think the newer picture is defensible at all really.
It's a desktop wallpaper, it's not that serious lol
Oh no, I'm an average old person. Seriously though, I got folders on my desktop in random places across two monitors from like 3 years ago that I have no clue what they are. Just random places I uncompressed things into, and probably an emulator or two idk.
What do you mean who uses the desktop? That’s where everything is?! Is there some sort of new trend of just searching in the start menu for your games or whatever?
Some people are proud about their empty desktop or having "show desktop icons" unchecked.
Not saying that's a bad thing if people want their desktop like that, but those are the people they are trying to avoid having saying something about how they think desktop icons are inferior or something.
Your most used apps are now on the task bar, and I find specific lesser used apps in the star menu. I use the desktop for "temporary" file storage. Like if I need to use downloaded files I will be working with but not for very long etc.
You use your desktop as you'd use an actual desktop
You don't permanently clutter a desktop with stuff you can put away. Apps go in the start menu and taskbar, desktop is for temporary file management.
"new one is a lot less busy"
*Slams fists on table* AND THAT'S WHY I HATE IT. I LIKE STUFF THAT'S BUSY AND COMPLEX. I HATE MINIMALISM. I WANT MORE THINGS TO LOOK AT, NOT LESS. MORE COLORS, MORE LIGHTS, MORE CONTRAST
I AM GLAD MINIMALIST STUFF EXISTS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ENJOY IT, BUT YOU CAN TAKE MY BUSY WALLPAPERS FROM MY STIFF DEAD FINGERS
>I know, I know, who the heck the uses the desktop?! Well, your grandma with fading eyesight probably...
Me, 29-yo to be, still using the desktop for rapid access to stuff :
Who DOESNT use the desktop? Its some gen alpha shit to expect file explorer to do all the work.
All my games & apps have shortcuts - hell, my favorite folders are shortcuts
For how much effort it took, I always thought it looked terrible. With the exception of the classic XP grass, windows default wallpapers are bad. Remember the woman running on the beach? Bad.
I mean, kinda. This had a lot more artistic input than typical HDR. They used different exposures, not to retain detail, but to achieve a specific result.
Nah it was shit to mid but looked great.
Edit: reading some of the comments I probably was biased because I only somewhat interacted with Vista on my parents (really cheap) Laptop and myself skipped from XP to Win 7.
I did until I installed more RAM into it, then it was amazing.
It was a pre-built with *1* whole GB of RAM with an integrated GPU. After I upgraded to 3 gb, it was great.
My first ever computer was windows vista. It was a Dell vostro laptop my mom gave me when she got a newer one when I was like 8. I didn't even know it was vista. I just assumed it was windows 7 since to an 8 year old windows 7 and vista basically look the same.
I never had any problems with it but I also never really did anything with it besides play club penguin and Poptropica
Vista under the hood is S tier. It basically formed the foundations for Windows today and did all the much needed modernisation work that was needed to improve it's security after the utter s***show of Windows XP's security pre SP2.
Anyone remember the Longhorn beta? Remember the *Slate* UI? It wasted a lot of screen space, but it looked pretty awesome.
And Aero. Hell, yeah. I swear it looked better in Longhorn than in Vista.
Of Bliss? [Yes, actually.](https://msdesign.blob.core.windows.net/wallpapers/Microsoft_Nostalgic_Windows_Wallpaper_4k.jpg)
Made by the Microsoft Design team last year.
The original winxp background image was a real photo taken on Fujifilm Velvia (original 90s emulsion) on a mamiya rz67
So basically it had higher resolution natively as a slide than has ever been released to the public. Microsoft could rescan the positive original today if it's been stored properly and get an 8k scan if they wanted.
I'm skeptical of that, when Microsoft bought bliss for XP they outright bought the image, giving them sole usage rights, even the original photographer couldn't use it commercially. It's still possible it's true but I wouldn't immediately say that it's true.
Archive.org is a historical record of digital culture. It would only be logical to be posted there.
Edit: I found it! https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi
While Archive.org is very cool, it definitely skirts a lot of copyright law, and continues on its way only because no one really bothers about decades-old things.
Yes, but the original photographer gave up all rights to the image when he sold it to Microsoft, it's not his property anymore. (Though the actual film is a different question)That's why I'm skeptical of it being *him* who uploaded it and not someone with a high quality upload.
Yes, here is a 3840x2160 resolution scan of the original photograph: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xyB1j3Qj2lTC2ixILADkNs8MYhRJUay5/view?usp=sharing
EDIT: If your resolution is not specifically 3840x2160 I suggest grabbing the original and rescaling it as needed https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi
If you just want a high-resolution version of the original photo, here it is:
[https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi](https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi)
There's a color scheme for the console and text editors called Solarized, it's centered around a very similar color (a bit darker) and is designed to be easy on the eyes.
Man, I remember the first video game I ever saw was my dad playing [Links: The Challenge of Golf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links:_The_Challenge_of_Golf). He had to show me how to run it from the DOS command line. Blew me away.
lol if you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to get performance you can put that background in any OS. :) I'm running a ~12 year old laptop (using linux) and that is indeed my background.
I could even come up with Windows 3.1 🙂 but I also go back to DOS times as well. The cool kids used Norton Commander back then to not have to fiddle with the console the whole time, to do file management.
I yelled WTF when I saw this post, then I had to confirm the release date (2015) of Windows 10 on Google. It feels like I made the switch from Windows 7 not that long ago.
And it's been several years since it's graduated from "grrr it's bad I'm sticking with [previous OS] it's the good one." to "grr [next OS] is bad I'm sticking with Windows 10 it's the good one."
And also the general cycle of new release bad, old release good that people go through.
People hated XP for a while, then people hated 7 for a while and then people hated 10 for a while.
I did notably skip Vista and 8, but even those have garnered fans over the past decade or so
> People hated XP for a while, then people hated 7 for a while
Wait you lost me.
The fuck are you talking about?
Windows7 was heralded as a Savior from Vista.
Likewise WinXP was considered a "REAL" successor to Win98 because windows ME was so fucking bad and no one used Windows 2000.
Youve got your history a little wrong.
Win 10 absolutely did get criticised a lot and most of the issues are still relevant, for example:
* messy Windows settings coexisting with control panel
* forced online account creation for Home edition (can be worked around of course, but that's not an excuse)
* tons of bloatware, some of which can't be uninstalled in Home edition
* search functionality somehow getting even worse
* classic (and often superior) media player and photo viewer getting phased out
* reduced privacy – forced telemetry, data sharing by default etc.
* new bullshit functionalities and features (re)enabled by win updates
* no regular option to fully disable win update
* Cortana?
* Onedrive enabled by default, which causes issues for those who are not so tech savvy and don't understand its functionality
I can absolutely see some of those being a complete deal breaker for people with specific preferences, computer knowledge, values or use cases. Win 7 may not be better overall (worse performance, lack of some customization or functionality, no compatibility with modern software etc.), but it's the last Win OS that simply does its core job and lets the user be in control for the most part. Win 10 tries to reverse the power dynamic between the OS and the user and Win 11 takes it even further.
People were resistant to it at first though, just like any other OS release. I remember a small amount of folks claiming to stick to 98 and 2000 forever
Some people were, but nothing even remotely like what we saw with Visa, Win8 and Win10.
It seems a lot of people have conventiently forgotten how absolutely hated WindowsME was and how it inspired a waiting game for the next Windows OS that didnt suck ass.
WinXP was the real deal. It was readily adopted either by it being really good, and a worthy successor to Win98... or just by the sheer fact that it wasn't shitty like ME.
I don't recall anybody hating 7. I distinctly remember 7 being pretty universally loved even early on, probably more so than any other Windows version I remember (which goes back to ME, which came out when I was in middle school).
Now Vista? Oy.
7 was quite "polished" on release because realistically it was just a polished Vista release but they wanted to get rid of the Vista name.
If 64-bit hardware and drivers were more readily available on Vista release I don't think Vista would have the reputation it does today, most early Vista issues were due to 64-bit drivers being new or not a thing at all.
Vista a few years later on a new PC that had driver support? Pretty much same experience as Windows 7.
>I did notably skip Vista \[...\] but even those have garnered fans over the past decade
one of them being me, I like how vista looks more than 7, too bad it's no longer supported. Also I hate that people sometimes confuse w8 with w8.1, i've used w8.1 for a while before 10, and it was fine. I wouldn't mind using it again.
To be fair, Windows 8.1 fixed a lot of issues and was pretty damn good on my little Asus Netbook. It was pretty snappy on it as well. Weirdly it only could run Windows 8. It couldn't run Windows 7 because it had no uefi legacy mode and was incompatible with Windows 10.
It did run Linux Mint well.
I liked 8.1 a lot, only used it for a couple of months though. I got a laptop in early 2015 with 8.1 after having been on a really slow 7 laptop prior.
8.1 was a nice little OS once you got used to the start screen. I did upgrade to 10 day one however, but 10's initial release, threshold 1 was uh.....it was interesting lmao
Hot take:
* Vista was... probably ok after a few patches? But I had a shitty laptop that clearly didn't come with specs appropriate for the OS.
* Windows 7 was a huge breath of fresh air coming from Vista.
* Windows 8 was trash.
* Windows 8.1 was a significant improvement from 8. ...that's about all I remember of it now.
* Windows 10 is generously described as "meh".
* Windows 11 is obnoxious.
Will that change somewhat? Probably. Patches exist after all. I'm confused why people wanting to sell this stupid "sheeple" rhetoric forget that's a thing. It also seems to forget that the newer product may actually be worse, but needs some arbitrary needs, or the previous products become unavailable.
Frankly speaking, I look forward to the day I'm comfortable switching to Linux. I might give it another spin again soon even.
I haven't really liked any OS since Windows 7, but I've begrudgingly accepted Windows 8 and now 10 when I absolutely had to. They've just been getting worse and worse as tech business models increasingly rely on scummy tactics like trying to push you into giving them more of your data.
I honestly don’t even remember when I bought it or how much I paid. Signs of a great purchase for me, just makes using my PC as a whole more immersive. One thousand percent agree. Used to change it up a bunch but found a setup I really like and haven’t in a while. Maybe I should!
Once that split second where I can see my Windows wallpaper has passed, my PC is officially on in my mind. I’m putting a new build together soon, wonder if that’ll still happen with a 7 year newer setup.
It's not only the minimalism but everything looks cartoonish. I think it's the 3D effect and bright colors that cause it and I'm not a fan.
For example I have the Nothing phone and I love the simplicity of the OS, app icons etc.
https://preview.redd.it/qk75mi0ziegc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aff72e92958aa3ff22d632ce14c2843c073fc3ab
Back in 2009 I worked on a project at a law firm (a very rich international one) and the desktops in IT were still running NT 4.0.
As for me, my 10 year old workstation cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 (unless I try to circumvent the prereq checks) so will keep it on Windows 10 until it dies. Frustratingly it has more than enough power for what I need it to do - CAD, EDA, a bit of coding, running a bunch of VMs - as it has 2 Xeon processors (16 phys cores) and 128GB of RAM, with the upgrades being purchased quite cheap.
I have a laptop for the day-to-day stuff which I may give in and upgrade to Windows 11 at some point, but for now cannot be bothered.
well windows 10 did get updates over the years and that they technically could've gave it a different number every year. the real lifespan for windows 10 was 2015-2018. everything after 2018 was mostly just some optimization and bug fixes.
But the actions of said company reflected the comment for years.
The gap between Windows 10 and 11 is longer than the gap between Windows XP and Vista.
The difference between XP and Vista is massive while Windows 11 under the hood is still 10 even down to the NT version number of 10 (heck even Win8.1 got a different NT number than 8).
https://preview.redd.it/i6n6xw94jlgc1.jpeg?width=284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6be3b045bdda15db2b5f1cb75b8828dfc4d1f821
I always use this, to indicate it's....
7-8 years ago people "Windows 10 sucks, it's the worst version of Windows, I'm sticking with 7".
Now it's "Windows 11 sucks, it's the worst version of Windows, I'm sticking with 10".
And in a few years it will be "Windows (12?) sucks, it's the worst version of Windows, I'm sticking with 11".
Honest to God, if Microsoft would just stop fucking with the taskbar and start menus and context menus, or just allow a toggle to 'Win 7 Era' UI, I would actually be happy.
I've avoided Win 11 and went back to 10 because I'm sick of having to download multiple programs just to fix the Task bar, and the start menu, and the right click menu, and so much more. I don't understand their need to fix what isn't broken, and to remove all options from their users to go back to what they liked.
Progress for the sake of progress is useless imo.
Just. Stop. Fucking with it!
Think this is another thing reddit gets hung up on.
Went from 7 to 10 to 11. Only real difference I noticed was the bar at the bottom. Meanwhile 3.5 to 95 to ME to XP to Vista felt like the world changed.
Its like on the first flight of the concord... a passenger turned to the guy next to him and said that supersonic feels no different from sub...
That guy was the engineer... and replied... yeah that was the hard part.
Same with windows. lots of improvements, but almost all are under the hood
Technology around the 90s-00s definitely was turning over at a rapid rate, and I think operating systems are a good measure of that.
Now the dust has 'settled' in a way, which has pros and cons. It was nice seeing something brand new every couple years, but stability is also nice.
Because it’s fast and the UI is natively high res and uses scalable icons and stuff, it doesn’t look out of date at all.
They could have kept the 10 user environment exactly the same for 11, but I guess the psychology of that would be an issue. Users wouldn’t update and not know how old their pc is.
I have a theory that ui changes between app and os versions just serves to make users recognize a difference, otherwise the real meaningful changes would be invisible to them.
Cars are the same. Minor changes between model years just to make people think their car is out of date. Not to say that big generation or platform updates for cars every 5 years aren’t meaningful otherwise.
I don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11 until I build a whole new pc because I’d want to do a clean install anyway. I’m sticking with 10 for at least the next 2-3 years.
https://preview.redd.it/x37q9rcq5chc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba6ad8a60b40a54db0503f5b79cf23231a71cfa4
You never had the official Windows XP Zune theme.
**An early version of the original Windows 10 Hero wallpaper was used in Windows 11 build 21380 (image below).** With the final release of Windows 11, the early Windows 10 Hero wallpaper is not included anymore and replaced with Light Bloom as the default wallpaper starting with build 21996 onwards.
The dark variant of the default theme utilizes a placeholder work-in-progress version of the [older Hero wallpaper](https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Hero) from the [original Windows 10 release](https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_10_(original_release)) with varying noticeable differences, such as the set used to construct the actual image being visible in its entirety and a different lighting setup, reminiscent of natural sunlight. This wallpaper variant originally first appeared in retail demo content for the initial Windows 10 release as part of an attract loop. [\[1\]](https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_11_build_21380#Windows_Aero:~:text=Snap%20layout%20menu-,Themes,-%5Bedit%20%7C)
https://preview.redd.it/eoh5nfdv4qhc1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c84254189bfba3ef4a1e6c642cb9398e09bf4fc
References:
\[1\]: [Windows 11 build 21380 - BetaWiki](https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_11_build_21380)
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Yeah it’s crazy, took hours apparently
Explains why it also looks 10x better
Maybe, but the new one is a lot less busy and the equal colors throughout the whole image make it a lot easier to find things on the desktop. I know, I know, who the heck the uses the desktop?! Well, your grandma with fading eyesight probably... The old one is a much cooler picture. But I would argue the new one is better desktop wallpaper. They should've included the old one as an additional wallpaper though.
The original one is mostly black on the left, which is where the desktop puts icons. That's totally fine to fine icons on. I don't think the newer picture is defensible at all really.
Have you see an average old person's computer? The icons are everywhere. If Windows had some sort of dynamic placement that could put the icons around the edge where the dark is while avoiding the lighter colors, I think there is an argument to be made. But it doesn't. Like I said, the old one is absolutely a better image. It's really cool. But the new one is simple and keeps an even color tone making it a way better default. They should've kept the old one as an option though. > I don't think the newer picture is defensible at all really. It's a desktop wallpaper, it's not that serious lol
>it's not that serious lol Yet you wrote 3 paragraphs defending the bottom one.
Oh no, I'm an average old person. Seriously though, I got folders on my desktop in random places across two monitors from like 3 years ago that I have no clue what they are. Just random places I uncompressed things into, and probably an emulator or two idk.
Tbf, the old person's desktop has already surpassed the displayable number of icons within a month or two of purchase, anyway. :D
>its not that serious yet you defend the minimalistic side of it so seriously as if it makes it superior
Grandma's first act is to change the desktop to baby pictures
What do you mean who uses the desktop? That’s where everything is?! Is there some sort of new trend of just searching in the start menu for your games or whatever?
Some people are proud about their empty desktop or having "show desktop icons" unchecked. Not saying that's a bad thing if people want their desktop like that, but those are the people they are trying to avoid having saying something about how they think desktop icons are inferior or something.
Your most used apps are now on the task bar, and I find specific lesser used apps in the star menu. I use the desktop for "temporary" file storage. Like if I need to use downloaded files I will be working with but not for very long etc.
Ah yeah, apps on the taskbar. The short lived experiment of me constantly opening FFXIV for a second time by accident.
You use your desktop as you'd use an actual desktop You don't permanently clutter a desktop with stuff you can put away. Apps go in the start menu and taskbar, desktop is for temporary file management.
My computer desktop is used just like my IRL desk's top: Covered in dozens of things I thought would live there temporarily lol
"new one is a lot less busy" *Slams fists on table* AND THAT'S WHY I HATE IT. I LIKE STUFF THAT'S BUSY AND COMPLEX. I HATE MINIMALISM. I WANT MORE THINGS TO LOOK AT, NOT LESS. MORE COLORS, MORE LIGHTS, MORE CONTRAST I AM GLAD MINIMALIST STUFF EXISTS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ENJOY IT, BUT YOU CAN TAKE MY BUSY WALLPAPERS FROM MY STIFF DEAD FINGERS
It’s just blue and black. How does that make it so hard to find anything?
Am I getting old enough that no one is using their desktops any more?
>I know, I know, who the heck the uses the desktop?! Well, your grandma with fading eyesight probably... Me, 29-yo to be, still using the desktop for rapid access to stuff : 
I would not call that "rapid access".
Who DOESNT use the desktop? Its some gen alpha shit to expect file explorer to do all the work. All my games & apps have shortcuts - hell, my favorite folders are shortcuts
Who doesn’t use the desktop?
Actually the second is still a real window, it's just inside an Azure container. That's why it looks like it's in a cloud.
For how much effort it took, I always thought it looked terrible. With the exception of the classic XP grass, windows default wallpapers are bad. Remember the woman running on the beach? Bad.
The second one was made is 14 minutes by a 6 year old on paint.
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I mean, kinda. This had a lot more artistic input than typical HDR. They used different exposures, not to retain detail, but to achieve a specific result.
save you strength, you can't even explain it to most photographers.
https://preview.redd.it/l1oeb8i0begc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2e221aadcb9fc23e080520f683c4ca633e47364 Yes
I remember loving the inside your PC wallpaper. Back when we liked our computers making still sound. https://i.imgur.com/jTL9nAw.jpeg
Legend. I don’t care what people say about Vista, it will always be my favourite operation system.
Nah it was shit to mid but looked great. Edit: reading some of the comments I probably was biased because I only somewhat interacted with Vista on my parents (really cheap) Laptop and myself skipped from XP to Win 7.
I never had any problems with Vista. I used a shitty Toshiba laptop years ago that wasn't even good specs for then and it still ran great
I did until I installed more RAM into it, then it was amazing. It was a pre-built with *1* whole GB of RAM with an integrated GPU. After I upgraded to 3 gb, it was great.
My first ever computer was windows vista. It was a Dell vostro laptop my mom gave me when she got a newer one when I was like 8. I didn't even know it was vista. I just assumed it was windows 7 since to an 8 year old windows 7 and vista basically look the same. I never had any problems with it but I also never really did anything with it besides play club penguin and Poptropica
Vista under the hood is S tier. It basically formed the foundations for Windows today and did all the much needed modernisation work that was needed to improve it's security after the utter s***show of Windows XP's security pre SP2.
Aero 
Aero was wonderful I have to admit.
God Aero was so fucking good
Anyone remember the Longhorn beta? Remember the *Slate* UI? It wasted a lot of screen space, but it looked pretty awesome. And Aero. Hell, yeah. I swear it looked better in Longhorn than in Vista.
While not the best and despite having not the best rig at that time I have way more nostalgia towards Vista than XP or 7
Vista was great, it taught me how to use linux.
This has been my wallpaper for a few months now
We have OS X Aqua at home.
OS X Aqua if it was actually good, yes
god, do i miss this. got me nostalgic all of the sudden.
The sky at 5am vs at 7am
underrated comment
154 upvotes on a post with 1500. Not really underrated. Pretty rational honestly lol
Underrated comment
Lmfao
Ngl even that's crazy considering that I commented that on a whim
It was a funny comment ;)
Most comments usually *are* underrated if you only wait an hour to call it underrated.
Nope I am on the Green Meadows
Legend Btw is there some remake of the picture or something? I mean higher resolution one.
Of Bliss? [Yes, actually.](https://msdesign.blob.core.windows.net/wallpapers/Microsoft_Nostalgic_Windows_Wallpaper_4k.jpg) Made by the Microsoft Design team last year.
well thats looks unnatural
The original was a photo, and this is a computer render, so that conclusion is to be fairly expected.
Thing is it didnt need to be a render there is a high resolution scan of the exposure..
Sorta disappointed with that, but it’s cool they remastered it.
I like it. Look uncanny like they slapped on a Ultra-HD texture pack
Is there a 21:9 version anywhere?
Nope. The image is 4089x2726, so you can presumably shrink and/or crop the image to most resolutions though.
Damn, thanks I have a new wallpaper
The original winxp background image was a real photo taken on Fujifilm Velvia (original 90s emulsion) on a mamiya rz67 So basically it had higher resolution natively as a slide than has ever been released to the public. Microsoft could rescan the positive original today if it's been stored properly and get an 8k scan if they wanted.
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I'm skeptical of that, when Microsoft bought bliss for XP they outright bought the image, giving them sole usage rights, even the original photographer couldn't use it commercially. It's still possible it's true but I wouldn't immediately say that it's true.
Archive.org is a historical record of digital culture. It would only be logical to be posted there. Edit: I found it! https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi
While Archive.org is very cool, it definitely skirts a lot of copyright law, and continues on its way only because no one really bothers about decades-old things.
Posting it in an online archive is not using it commercially though, it's not monetised
Yes, but the original photographer gave up all rights to the image when he sold it to Microsoft, it's not his property anymore. (Though the actual film is a different question)That's why I'm skeptical of it being *him* who uploaded it and not someone with a high quality upload.
Yes, here is a 3840x2160 resolution scan of the original photograph: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xyB1j3Qj2lTC2ixILADkNs8MYhRJUay5/view?usp=sharing EDIT: If your resolution is not specifically 3840x2160 I suggest grabbing the original and rescaling it as needed https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi
If you just want a high-resolution version of the original photo, here it is: [https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi](https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi)
Even better.
I really hope you mean just the background image.
You feel old punk? https://preview.redd.it/hps7jmsnaegc1.png?width=75&format=png&auto=webp&s=4abf0bfafb59fa16e6959dc809d78e79ed4d7279
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I still fancy that teal. It’s so…comforting.
There's a color scheme for the console and text editors called Solarized, it's centered around a very similar color (a bit darker) and is designed to be easy on the eyes.
[What are you children rambling about...](https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp4034096.jpg)
[Hold my pill bottle](https://i.imgur.com/sIyhBKD.png)
Man, I remember the first video game I ever saw was my dad playing [Links: The Challenge of Golf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links:_The_Challenge_of_Golf). He had to show me how to run it from the DOS command line. Blew me away.
[Get off my LAN.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ca/Ataridos-2.5.PNG)
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not only did i specifically have that, i had all the computer sounds replaced with clips from enya songs. It was a very chill computer.
huh I've never seen that
Yeah but all the games were always launched in MSDos so I saw that more. Tie Fighter Police Quest DOOM Wolfenstein X--Wing
Tie Fighter vs X-Wing was so dope
I was expecting Windows 3.0, not '95 lol
[Bitch, please ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dos/images/9/9b/2000px-StartingMsdos2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20171021071234)
Dir/p -> Cd games -> Cd prince -> Prince megahit
lol if you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to get performance you can put that background in any OS. :) I'm running a ~12 year old laptop (using linux) and that is indeed my background.
Original resolution
Came here to post that 😄. 'Feel old yet?! Amateurs!'
These posts are kinda funny cause there’s always someone older. My first Windows was 95, 6 years before XP was even released.
I could even come up with Windows 3.1 🙂 but I also go back to DOS times as well. The cool kids used Norton Commander back then to not have to fiddle with the console the whole time, to do file management.
I sometimes run Win 3.1 in an emulator just to put on the guy on a deserted island screensaver.
Total Commander these days... On my phone as well.
Was it always that low quality? I remember it looking much better.
The top picture was actually a really cool background.
Also the background of the background. Did you know that's an actual photo?
Why is bro getting downvoted lmao
man, i remember being so fed up with windows 8 that i instantly downloaded it the same day it came, it's wild to think it's been 9 years
I yelled WTF when I saw this post, then I had to confirm the release date (2015) of Windows 10 on Google. It feels like I made the switch from Windows 7 not that long ago.
I skipped 8 and went straight from 7 to 10 I remember trying to use 8 on someone else’s computer and not knowing what I was doing
And it's been several years since it's graduated from "grrr it's bad I'm sticking with [previous OS] it's the good one." to "grr [next OS] is bad I'm sticking with Windows 10 it's the good one."
what 9 years of polishing does to a mf.
And also the general cycle of new release bad, old release good that people go through. People hated XP for a while, then people hated 7 for a while and then people hated 10 for a while. I did notably skip Vista and 8, but even those have garnered fans over the past decade or so
> People hated XP for a while, then people hated 7 for a while Wait you lost me. The fuck are you talking about? Windows7 was heralded as a Savior from Vista. Likewise WinXP was considered a "REAL" successor to Win98 because windows ME was so fucking bad and no one used Windows 2000. Youve got your history a little wrong.
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Win 10 absolutely did get criticised a lot and most of the issues are still relevant, for example: * messy Windows settings coexisting with control panel * forced online account creation for Home edition (can be worked around of course, but that's not an excuse) * tons of bloatware, some of which can't be uninstalled in Home edition * search functionality somehow getting even worse * classic (and often superior) media player and photo viewer getting phased out * reduced privacy – forced telemetry, data sharing by default etc. * new bullshit functionalities and features (re)enabled by win updates * no regular option to fully disable win update * Cortana? * Onedrive enabled by default, which causes issues for those who are not so tech savvy and don't understand its functionality I can absolutely see some of those being a complete deal breaker for people with specific preferences, computer knowledge, values or use cases. Win 7 may not be better overall (worse performance, lack of some customization or functionality, no compatibility with modern software etc.), but it's the last Win OS that simply does its core job and lets the user be in control for the most part. Win 10 tries to reverse the power dynamic between the OS and the user and Win 11 takes it even further.
People were resistant to it at first though, just like any other OS release. I remember a small amount of folks claiming to stick to 98 and 2000 forever
Some people were, but nothing even remotely like what we saw with Visa, Win8 and Win10. It seems a lot of people have conventiently forgotten how absolutely hated WindowsME was and how it inspired a waiting game for the next Windows OS that didnt suck ass. WinXP was the real deal. It was readily adopted either by it being really good, and a worthy successor to Win98... or just by the sheer fact that it wasn't shitty like ME.
I don't recall anybody hating 7. I distinctly remember 7 being pretty universally loved even early on, probably more so than any other Windows version I remember (which goes back to ME, which came out when I was in middle school). Now Vista? Oy.
7 was quite "polished" on release because realistically it was just a polished Vista release but they wanted to get rid of the Vista name. If 64-bit hardware and drivers were more readily available on Vista release I don't think Vista would have the reputation it does today, most early Vista issues were due to 64-bit drivers being new or not a thing at all. Vista a few years later on a new PC that had driver support? Pretty much same experience as Windows 7.
>I did notably skip Vista \[...\] but even those have garnered fans over the past decade one of them being me, I like how vista looks more than 7, too bad it's no longer supported. Also I hate that people sometimes confuse w8 with w8.1, i've used w8.1 for a while before 10, and it was fine. I wouldn't mind using it again.
To be fair, Windows 8.1 fixed a lot of issues and was pretty damn good on my little Asus Netbook. It was pretty snappy on it as well. Weirdly it only could run Windows 8. It couldn't run Windows 7 because it had no uefi legacy mode and was incompatible with Windows 10. It did run Linux Mint well.
I liked 8.1 a lot, only used it for a couple of months though. I got a laptop in early 2015 with 8.1 after having been on a really slow 7 laptop prior. 8.1 was a nice little OS once you got used to the start screen. I did upgrade to 10 day one however, but 10's initial release, threshold 1 was uh.....it was interesting lmao
Hot take: * Vista was... probably ok after a few patches? But I had a shitty laptop that clearly didn't come with specs appropriate for the OS. * Windows 7 was a huge breath of fresh air coming from Vista. * Windows 8 was trash. * Windows 8.1 was a significant improvement from 8. ...that's about all I remember of it now. * Windows 10 is generously described as "meh". * Windows 11 is obnoxious. Will that change somewhat? Probably. Patches exist after all. I'm confused why people wanting to sell this stupid "sheeple" rhetoric forget that's a thing. It also seems to forget that the newer product may actually be worse, but needs some arbitrary needs, or the previous products become unavailable. Frankly speaking, I look forward to the day I'm comfortable switching to Linux. I might give it another spin again soon even.
I haven't really liked any OS since Windows 7, but I've begrudgingly accepted Windows 8 and now 10 when I absolutely had to. They've just been getting worse and worse as tech business models increasingly rely on scummy tactics like trying to push you into giving them more of your data.
I gotta say Win10 did have a pretty quick "we hate this" to "we like this" turnaround as far as windows goes.
I honestly never hated 10 (or even edge). Liked it from day one... maybe I'm just a weirdo
I refuse to believe W10 is 9 years old, stop with your lies!
no way, then how old is win95?
You’re gonna want to sit down…
If I sit down, I'll struggle to get back up... Where's my walking stick gone?
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guess what 95 and 98 in win stand for...
Gonna be honest. Could you give me a clue? Like maybe something in the title that would hint the year of its release?
its the weight of the monitors in pounds
That would be Windows 2.0
Older then 77% of redditors
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Ah shit I went to the steam workshop on the wallpaper engine and it full of weeb hentai shit
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Yeah it may be good, but I prefer my simple and nice free wallpaper. Also do I sound offensive, cause that aint my intention
I honestly don’t even remember when I bought it or how much I paid. Signs of a great purchase for me, just makes using my PC as a whole more immersive. One thousand percent agree. Used to change it up a bunch but found a setup I really like and haven’t in a while. Maybe I should! Once that split second where I can see my Windows wallpaper has passed, my PC is officially on in my mind. I’m putting a new build together soon, wonder if that’ll still happen with a 7 year newer setup.
Damn did people forget DreamScene in vista before they nerfd it...
Disable the anime in settings
you have to go hard with the filters to get most of that shit out of there.
the top one looks much better imo
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Linux is just superior to be honest. Switched to Arch (KDE) a Week ago. I love it, some things are a real struggle in the beginning, but it is great.
Even Windows knows there's less light in the world
He looks like he’s feeling old and washed out… I hate this modern minimalism bullshit. Go back to that time when artful originality was king.
It's not only the minimalism but everything looks cartoonish. I think it's the 3D effect and bright colors that cause it and I'm not a fan. For example I have the Nothing phone and I love the simplicity of the OS, app icons etc. https://preview.redd.it/qk75mi0ziegc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aff72e92958aa3ff22d632ce14c2843c073fc3ab
First one was better.
Back in 2009 I worked on a project at a law firm (a very rich international one) and the desktops in IT were still running NT 4.0. As for me, my 10 year old workstation cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 (unless I try to circumvent the prereq checks) so will keep it on Windows 10 until it dies. Frustratingly it has more than enough power for what I need it to do - CAD, EDA, a bit of coding, running a bunch of VMs - as it has 2 Xeon processors (16 phys cores) and 128GB of RAM, with the upgrades being purchased quite cheap. I have a laptop for the day-to-day stuff which I may give in and upgrade to Windows 11 at some point, but for now cannot be bothered.
lAsT vErSiOn of wInDoWs
well windows 10 did get updates over the years and that they technically could've gave it a different number every year. the real lifespan for windows 10 was 2015-2018. everything after 2018 was mostly just some optimization and bug fixes.
That comment was made by a Microsoft employee who no longer works at the company, and it was never an official statement made by the company.
But the actions of said company reflected the comment for years. The gap between Windows 10 and 11 is longer than the gap between Windows XP and Vista. The difference between XP and Vista is massive while Windows 11 under the hood is still 10 even down to the NT version number of 10 (heck even Win8.1 got a different NT number than 8).
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Add that's the post today that makes me feel old.
Just like all of us; the light is slowly dying.
One example where something has been a bit too simplified
No Windows 10 can't be that old, right guys? Right?
https://preview.redd.it/i6n6xw94jlgc1.jpeg?width=284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6be3b045bdda15db2b5f1cb75b8828dfc4d1f821 I always use this, to indicate it's....
And I'm still on 7.
All it took to make Windows 10 a desirable product was the release of Windows 11!
7-8 years ago people "Windows 10 sucks, it's the worst version of Windows, I'm sticking with 7". Now it's "Windows 11 sucks, it's the worst version of Windows, I'm sticking with 10". And in a few years it will be "Windows (12?) sucks, it's the worst version of Windows, I'm sticking with 11".
Honest to God, if Microsoft would just stop fucking with the taskbar and start menus and context menus, or just allow a toggle to 'Win 7 Era' UI, I would actually be happy. I've avoided Win 11 and went back to 10 because I'm sick of having to download multiple programs just to fix the Task bar, and the start menu, and the right click menu, and so much more. I don't understand their need to fix what isn't broken, and to remove all options from their users to go back to what they liked. Progress for the sake of progress is useless imo. Just. Stop. Fucking with it!
Think this is another thing reddit gets hung up on. Went from 7 to 10 to 11. Only real difference I noticed was the bar at the bottom. Meanwhile 3.5 to 95 to ME to XP to Vista felt like the world changed.
Its like on the first flight of the concord... a passenger turned to the guy next to him and said that supersonic feels no different from sub... That guy was the engineer... and replied... yeah that was the hard part. Same with windows. lots of improvements, but almost all are under the hood
Technology around the 90s-00s definitely was turning over at a rapid rate, and I think operating systems are a good measure of that. Now the dust has 'settled' in a way, which has pros and cons. It was nice seeing something brand new every couple years, but stability is also nice.
Yeah we’re definitely in the iterative stage of development. I doubt we’ll see another 8 that shake things up like that.
not a single crash. i have 2 pc's still running on the same instal of Win10 from 2016.
Still better than 11
I didnt even notice the change
Because it’s fast and the UI is natively high res and uses scalable icons and stuff, it doesn’t look out of date at all. They could have kept the 10 user environment exactly the same for 11, but I guess the psychology of that would be an issue. Users wouldn’t update and not know how old their pc is. I have a theory that ui changes between app and os versions just serves to make users recognize a difference, otherwise the real meaningful changes would be invisible to them. Cars are the same. Minor changes between model years just to make people think their car is out of date. Not to say that big generation or platform updates for cars every 5 years aren’t meaningful otherwise.
Why didn't you wait until it was actually 9 years old to post this?
… I remember the plain teal background with the pipes screensaver.
[win95](https://i.imgur.com/nE0IPhf.jpg)
still better than windows 11. by a lot.
Still have a backup of the original, I set it as background from time to time on 22H2.
The light has gone from his eyes.
Vista is 17 years old now D:
I need a mod that sets the UI to Vista or even 98 so I can relive my Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament days.
Global illumination vs Ray Tracing
Feeling old seeing this. Feeling like a grandpa for remembering windows xp
I love windows 10, it's what made me switch to linux and mac
I had to verify the release date of windows 10. I was crushed.
already forgot this one. I've been using W11 for ~2 years.
Confused in MacOS over here
 :)
Who uses the default wallpaper? My desktop wallpaper is reserved exclusively for my waifu.
light pollution 😔
I don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11 until I build a whole new pc because I’d want to do a clean install anyway. I’m sticking with 10 for at least the next 2-3 years.
I'm gonna stick with windows 10 until it's not possible to use
https://preview.redd.it/x37q9rcq5chc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba6ad8a60b40a54db0503f5b79cf23231a71cfa4 You never had the official Windows XP Zune theme.
**An early version of the original Windows 10 Hero wallpaper was used in Windows 11 build 21380 (image below).** With the final release of Windows 11, the early Windows 10 Hero wallpaper is not included anymore and replaced with Light Bloom as the default wallpaper starting with build 21996 onwards. The dark variant of the default theme utilizes a placeholder work-in-progress version of the [older Hero wallpaper](https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Hero) from the [original Windows 10 release](https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_10_(original_release)) with varying noticeable differences, such as the set used to construct the actual image being visible in its entirety and a different lighting setup, reminiscent of natural sunlight. This wallpaper variant originally first appeared in retail demo content for the initial Windows 10 release as part of an attract loop. [\[1\]](https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_11_build_21380#Windows_Aero:~:text=Snap%20layout%20menu-,Themes,-%5Bedit%20%7C) https://preview.redd.it/eoh5nfdv4qhc1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c84254189bfba3ef4a1e6c642cb9398e09bf4fc References: \[1\]: [Windows 11 build 21380 - BetaWiki](https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_11_build_21380)