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Anyone else remember Corel Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like win 95 IMO :-D

  • No Taskbar,
  • Tasklist on the top right (also not in front),
  • Dockable Windows,
  • Package Manager,
  • Bright Yellow half titlebars
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How's the atlantic anything like the pacific?

  • smaller
  • not in the same spot
  • doesn't get the same amount of sun
  • different countries in it
  • doesn't help you go to the same places by boat

Truly nothing in common. Might as well be comparing an apple to caulking a window

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Weak comparison...

BeOS/Haiku doesn't LOOK even remotely like win9x.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

It looks a lot like win95. I don't think anything you brought up is relevant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It literally does not.

It has half yellow titlebars whereas win 95 has full titlebars with a solid blue colour (98+ had a gradient). The Tracker was in the top right corner and didn't extend it's height to the bottom. The Taskbar on the other hand was at the bottom corner and extended from left to right.

Those two differences are already enough to make BeOS NOT look anything alike windows 95.

https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/guides/images/000/002/639/medium800/VirtualBox_BeOS_06_08_2019_13_06_26.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Windows_95_at_first_run.png

[–] AnUnusualRelic 1 points 10 months ago

It's not the same colour! Clearly a completely different operating system!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Aside from "has windows"... How?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You're not wrong. KDE 1.x very much aimed at the Win95 market. They even directly targeted the windows userbase with jokes. The ordinal Win95 had a little fly-in animation that said "Where do you want to go today?" with an arrow pointing at the start menu. KDE 1.0 had this too, but it said "tomorrow" instead of "today". Etc.

KDE also stole good ideas from wherever they were found. Trash is thus called because of Apple. The virtual desktops came from CDE. Etc. Sometimes it stole too much, and we would have discussions about flying too close to the sun, and tweak something so it would be just different enough not to raise the ire of lawyers.

Corel Linux was a KDE distro, so it largely had that familiar Win9x look, even if it felt different once you were actually using it. KDE later developed it's own identity, but it retains its history and the baggage that comes with it.