Debian Unstable (often called Sid) is a branch of the Debian operating system designed for active development of new versions of packages. It is considered the most recent, but also the most unstable of the three main branches of Debian. Other software comes with Oldversion and runs under Wine. Xfce Desktop Environments

  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
    2·
    6 days ago

    I found an Irix theme for Plasma but it didn’t work. I’m running a CDE theme in the mean time. I’m especially impressed by all the little details.

  • Schwim Dandy@lemmy.zip
    542·
    8 days ago

    Without context, the image isn’t that impressive. If nothing XP-related actually works and it’s just a display exercise, it’s just a 20-something year old skin import.

    If absolutely everything works in the manner XP worked, then it’s incredibly impressive.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      30·
      8 days ago

      I use a Windows XP computer (for distraction-free writing using old DOS word processors) and a bunch of Linux and Windows 11 PCs. Being in contact with XP regularly, I don’t experience any desire to go back to doing things like that. It’s really rough compared to modern Linux.

        • floofloof@lemmy.ca
          2·
          3 days ago

          You don’t get the same feeling of suspicion about what the machine is up to. Windows 11 feels like the computer spends just enough time doing what you want that you don’t walk away forever in frustration, but most of the resources are spent doing unspecified things in the background for people you don’t know, who are very interested in what you’re doing. My Windows XP machine’s CPU scores 75 on Passmark, while my Windows 11 machine scores about 46,000. But the speed at which they do many ordinary things isn’t so different, because Windows 11 does so much heavy stuff in the background. My Linux machines (scoring between 8,000 and 28,000) all feel tangibly faster than Win 11.

    • phantomwise@lemmy.ml
      17·
      7 days ago

      I do find recreating the whole theme of XP pretty impressive, it must have taken a lot more than just a “skin import”.

  • duckiegobrrr@kbin.earth
    18·
    8 days ago

    dotfiles?

    would be willing to actually set this up for myself on some device, this almost looks perfect besides the icons on the desktop being a bit too far apart than they are on XP for real

      • duckiegobrrr@kbin.earth
        6·
        8 days ago

        not planned, sorry

        also now that I think about it, doing this sort of theme is not really a thing I’d want to be involved in (was never into “ricing” type stuff tbh), though I might just make myself do it if I really wanted to see that sight come from my own Linux install instead of OP’s

      • Matriks404@lemmy.world
        14·
        7 days ago

        I see few of these, but there might be more:

        1. The icons on the desktop are too apart from each other.

        2. The icon for a floppy disk is much different to what’s on Windows XP.

        3. I think program names in the taskbar are 1 or 2 pixels too high, but I might be wrong.

        4. The icons in the notification area are too close to each other.

        5. Last icon in the notification area is too close to the clock.

        6. There’s too much padding to the left of notification area icons.

        7. There’s too much padding to the right of the taskbar clock.

    • Tanoh@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 days ago

      The unstable part is just compared to other versions of Debian. Every now and then a package dependency breaks, but usually nothing serious and you can still use the system until it is fixed within hours. It is not like the system will constantly crash, it is still linux.

      I have used sid for years without any major problems. Usually only on desktop though.