Karyl 
There are two wolves inside of you. One wants your OS to have an ultra-slick futuristic aesthetic. The other one wants your OS to look like Windows 95
bitsavers.orgThe wolf that just wants a vt100 command line is always forgotten.
Rairii@paintedsky The compromise: your OS uses the Watercolour theme
Carighan Maconar@paintedsky Sadly am old enough where W95 *was* that ultra-slick futuristic aesthetic. 😢
sirlan → @@paintedsky this but with my site
Jernej Simončič �
Daniel Núñez@paintedsky But Windows 95 + Internet Explorer 4 was peak Desktop.
greg ✓✅⍻✔☑√@danmarce truly the most active of desktops
Tomas Ekeli@paintedsky these two things are the same thing
Linh Pham@paintedsky *cough* Anything running CDE *cough* 🙃
Casey / Internet Stray@paintedsky I feel attacked on a personal level.
LisPi@paintedsky I guess the Lisp alien repurposed their biomass, woops.
willow🏳️⚧️@paintedsky theres one wolf in me and it wants my os to look like osx snow leopard
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐@paintedsky I would settle for a UI that worked as well as MacOS 7. There are features in the original Macintosh OS that are still superior to any OSes on the market, today. Apple spent many millions of dollars on UI research in the early 1980s, only to abandon it with the move to Mac OS X.
Anders Stenberg@gcvsa @paintedsky I only used older MacOS veeeeery briefly. Any good examples of things it did better? Just curious!
@SonnyBonds @paintedsky One thing that immediately comes to mind is how MacOS handled traversing nested drop-down menus. You could mouse diagonally over the space that was outside the menu without the menu closing. Many other systems still do not do this.
Flux@paintedsky I kinda want a hybrid of the two, the best of both worlds
Felix Bernoully@paintedsky @lisamelton System 7, but yes
slembcke@felixbernoully @paintedsky @lisamelton I’ve lately had some real nostalgia for the platinum look too. I feel like it aged well for me. :)
DDR@paintedsky Using Windows, both my wolves are equally happy.
@paintedsky Windows 2000 was peak.
Hugo Devillers
Gorgeous na Shock!@paintedsky The answer: Windows NT 4.
CYBER 
katze@paintedsky i want mine to look so weird and custom that it looks like a custom built feverdream which is clear that it could look beautiful and polished but i didnt even bother to set a wallpaper
SpliceFixer 
@paintedsky One of my wolves wants my desktop to look like Toybox.
Those were the days. All of my shortcuts had hand-designed icons.
ianthe's inferno 🏴🇧🇿⚽️
ARGVMI~1.PIFI'm in my 40s. #Windows 95 *is* the ultra-slick futuristic aesthetic. Get off my lawn!