Slashdot Mirror
XPde: Cloning the XP Interface
An anonymous reader writes "Over at XPde.com, a clone of the Windows XP interface is progressing. They aim to copy the XP interface down to every last detail- with exceptions for text that specifically mentions Windows XP or Microsoft. Their project seems to be coming along well, and assuming they meet their goal, nobody can complain about Linux not being enough like XP. Here is the screenshots page." Depends what you like, I suppose ;)
This is the last post on this subject. Watch and see.
Moderate down the appeaser who wrote the parent post. We the people who read Slashdot will not rest until Free Software has vanquished all the Micro$oft crap and freedom prevails.
I guess this would be more funny *and* true if you said this joke 4 or 5 years ago...
What kind of wankers are reading /. on Christmas morning!! You should all be in church instead of wanking!
Making Linux look more like Windows doesn't change the fact that Linux is inferior and totally gay. Unlike Linux, Windows runs all the software you want, supports all the hardware you want and it's free -- -- get it from usenet or from a friend.
Your mom must be proud... that I keep trying to emulate her ass.
>Windows hasn't blue-screened since win2k.
No, XP just grinds to a slow, numbing halt. Stuff just quits working.
And the UI itself blows. Not even changing it to "Classic Windows" negates the fact that MS has just made it that much more difficult to accomplish basic system tasks.
Win2K tries to do the same thing, but at least the Task Manager works halfway decently. I only have to reboot once or twice a week now.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Cloning interfaces like OSX which nobody uses is worthless. If apple had really wanted to get more market share, it would have cloned the windows interface, and slapped a nice unix interface under it. Give ppl what they are used to, and make the core smaller, faster, and stabler. Oh wait, that's what exactly this is.