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Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7
DeviceGuru writes "Although it won't help Linux run Windows-specific software applications, this easy hack produces an Ubuntu desktop that looks and feels a lot like Windows 7. It's particularly suitable for reviving older PCs or laptops on which the main activities will be web-browsing, email, document writing, and streaming music and videos from from the web. The process installs a Windows 7-like GNOME theme on an otherwise standard Ubuntu 10.04 installation, although it might work on other Linux distros with GNOME and appropriate other packages installed. Naturally all this begs the question: why would anybody want to do this? Why indeed!" People have been doing this sort of look-and-feel swap-out for years; it seems best to me as a practical joke.
This angers me to no end.
The other day I had a huge argument over the use of the phrase: "if I do say so myself".
It seems people have become so stupid that all actual meaning is lost, and any phrase can be used in any way.
THL phish sticks
To Hell with that.
you must not have used windows 7 yet. It is like driving with a par-scope compared even to windows xp.
> Windows 7 is the best I've used so far - it makes sense, and looks good doing it.
No. You are just a Lemming. You would be a cheerleader for anything that Microsoft did.
You may have even cheered Microsoft when they were sandbagging with DOS all those years.
As someone that has been subjected to previous versions of Windows by corporate overlords,
the new version is annoyingly different. It also does really stupid things with "usability"
interfaces that just defy description.
It's time to make a new theme for GNOME because Microsoft has made gratuitous changes and
the Windows themes look out of date now. They won't "look right" to Lemmings until they
have that god-awful dock knockoff on it.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.