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lynnharry | 11 months ago

IMHO, what's important for Windows 7 is the established userbase and all the hardware that's already running on Windows 7, not it's UI.

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cosmic_cheese|11 months ago

Maybe, but there’s no reason why a thoughtfully engineered Win7 clone DE on a lightweight Linux couldn’t run just as well or better on the same hardware.

aleph_minus_one|11 months ago

> but there’s no reason why a thoughtfully engineered Win7 clone DE on a lightweight Linux

Why not a "thoughtfully engineered Win7 clone Desktop Environment" (without Linux :-) ). By the way: people are working on ReactOS:

> https://reactos.org/

listenallyall|11 months ago

Your opinion. Win 7 was the best Windows UI, both in looks (Aero) and usability. It was abandoned primarily because Microsoft was trying to achieve some hybrid desktop/tablet/mobile UI that worked poorly for all form factors. Win 11+ (or whatever the next version is called) would be well-suited to return to an Aero-like UI.