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Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7

Posted by timothy on from the ok-fine-click-on-the-blue-e dept.

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.

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  1. Dual boot... by PmanAce · · Score: 3, Funny

    So one one partition, boot Ubuntu that looks like Windows 7, and on the other partion, boot Windows with an Ubuntu theme? Ah, those would be the days...

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  2. I see you are running Windows 7... by swanzilla · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Gnome I'm not.

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  3. I don't get it by zill · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why couldn't they just switch back to the default theme?

  4. Coming up: by Thraxy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next week we feature: Make your Ferrari look like a Ford Escort.

    1. Re:Coming up: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Make your Ford Escort look like a Ferrari.

      -- There I fixed that for ya.

    2. Re:Coming up: by SleazyRidr · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think you missed the joke in the most complete way possible.

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  5. Re:If the only way... by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait...we're still doing that one?

  6. Re:"But look! You can make it look like Windows 7! by linhares · · Score: 4, Funny

    for a hundred bucks I'll answer your question

  7. look and feel of ubuntu? by macbeth66 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there something that I can load on a Windows box that will make it look like Ubuntu?

    1. Re:look and feel of ubuntu? by glwtta · · Score: 2, Funny

      Anyone else?

      It's still not too late to jump in there with an awesome joke!

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  8. Re:begs the question by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 5, Funny

    The other day I had a huge argument over the use of the phrase: "if I do say so myself".

    You must be a delight at parties.

  9. Re:begs the question by edmicman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I couldn't of said it better!

  10. Re:begs the question by dkleinsc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why, I am, if I do say so myself.

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  11. Re:begs the question by quickgold192 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well that's between you and a doctor, or a consenting adult.

  12. Re:begs the question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ugh