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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 week agoYes, actually—I have a VM reserved mostly for 16-bit software
Do you think that’s normal? I made very clear in my comment I was referring to the vast majority of people, not a tiny majority of 80s/early 90s software enthusiasts.
Yes, actually
As above, do you think that’s normal? I never said *literally nobody, anywhere, on planet Earth does this.
Some of us do put our money where our mouths are, although I admit that isn’t universal.
Exactly. And that’s fine.
But the vast majority of people prefer UI now over what we had in the 90s.
but the amount present in contemporary design is way too large
In your opinion, sure. But that’s not the prevailing opinion.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
It’s bullshit. Most people choose from among the handful of things the corporations offer them. You have to be exceptionally blockheaded to stay with an OS that no longer receives security patches, even if you prefer its interface paradigm, and if you’re not the one controlling the machine you may not even have the option. The type of retrofitting I’ve done on my work machine is just that—work—and I understand why people may not want to do it, or may not be able to do it if they’d have to fight a draconian IT department for permission.
Furthermore, most people aren’t designers or even terribly compute-literate. They don’t necessarily understand which design elements are causing them to be so inefficient when they move to a different OS version, or how to revert them in cases where that’s possible. They’re stuck with Microsoft-Apple-Google’s poor design decisions, until the same corp hands them another set of poor design decisions. The corporations don’t want to decouple the UI from the OS the way Linux and other Unixoids do and let people choose, because the shiny new UIs are an advertising opportunity and impress certain types of reviewers.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I never said using an OS from the 90s/early 2000s, I said theming current OSes as if they are.
But tbh, most people are that block-headed with tech (as you alluded to later in your comment). There will be plenty of people still on Win10 when support ends.