This just hits hard
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Can't even get HL3 on an alternate timeline.
We might be living in the timeline that gets HL3. A recent leak from a VA's resume suggests that it might be in development.
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Can we return to Aero? Is that too much to ask?
I've been long enough on this place that I know you can get similar effects on Linux
(not mine, found on image search)
first screenshot doesn't look like aero at all tbh. second one more so. this is the most accurate port I know of tho https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma
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It's pretty easy! This is my desktop right now. I do like it a liiitle less gaudy and my mac use at work means that I prefer my window controls on the left instead of the right.
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Skip aero. Let's go back to compiz fusion and deskcubes.
New KDE brought the cube back!
I'm rocking a desktop octagon with two monitors with all the fancy window animations on and still using less ram that windows on idle lol.
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Oh fuck. We need themes on steam client
You can. They are called skins though.
Apparently official skin support no longer exists but Millennium for Steam looks like an unofficial tool that can be used for skins.
Yeah, I used to mess about with it but it became too much because Steam updates so damn much.
Fucking Steam always getting shittier with each update! Why can't they be better like Microsoft's XBox Store or DRM free like Epic Games?!
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Crazy how Microsoft sold of their XBox brand to Sega, conserding that this single handetly made Sega the biggest video gaming company world wide!
What kind of soulless psychopath leaves a window of this size unmaximized is the real question here. Also, a horizontal scrollbar in the main section, able to scroll maybe 8 pixels total to see some more of the glorious empty padding, could have been a nice touch as a consequence of the "unintended" window size.
I'm sure they didn't think of the window police.
I try not to let my nostalgia get the better of me, but god damn I really miss when everything looked like this.
Maybe I'm older than you, but I preferred Windows XP style, it was better without the confusing ribbon bar.
Loved XP and loved Windows 7. Haven't like a single Windows OS since.
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I'm with you - the nostalgia is fun. I installed https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 as a joke, and I'm still using it a year later...
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Thanks, I hate it.
Needs to be running on Linux to make it perfect.
Well atleast for Gnome we have AdwSteamGTK which make Steam fit seemingly into LibAdwaita.
Oh man, that formatting nostalgia hit.
can someone make this a thing somehow?
Didn't Steam have skins/themes back in the day?
They're still out there technically, but they get jankier every year. The new UI they released... last year? put the nail in the coffin for a lot of the fancy ones, but there are still options out there to skin your Steam UI.
Hate it for the current day but gives off strong nostalgia vibes
Can you do one of these for Windows 3.1 or 95? That would be sweet!
Honestly, I hate steam (the client) so much. I have a fair sized library of games that I never play because it’s just torture to me to start that abomination of a program. Why the fuck couldn’t they give it a simple, clean, elegant, native UI that doesn’t treat my battery with wanton disrespect?
Have a look at Playnite, it might be a better fit for you, also includes other stores.
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A better timeline?
Windows UI design peaked with Windows 98 and Unix UI design peaked with IRIX imo
Back when they had consistent style guidelines to follow (I remember reading them, along with deep descriptions of how PnP actually works - yuck!).
Now they just throw shit at the wall it seems
I think I speak for everyone when I say
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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I don't think that those three buttons would be in the statusbar. "Add a Game" would be in the sidepane "Games", "Manage Downloads" and "Friends and Chat" would be a view (in the sidepane) instead of a button.
but overall, a damn beautiful interface :)
Frutiger Aero from Windows Vista and 7 was the peak of UI design.
It was so much more welcoming and fun. Sure it sucks at scalability but that's easily resolved with proper vector graphics.
Does anyone have that skin?
Perfect choice of game to display this
Nightmare fuel
I loved this theme! I remember upgrading from XP to Vista Aero (later win7) and being blown away! Aero based themes are still my favorite. Windows 8 and 10 looked cheap and boring.
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