lol, the background thread turned into the PC thread, I'm surprised there isn't one already actually, there
is a my pc hates me thread but it's not really the same.
NO. Absolutely not. Why would I compare it against itself? I was comparing Vista's shiny default skin, Aero, with other skins from other products. Aqua is the magnificent work of Apple for the Mac OS X and features a soft unobtrusive color scheme, and the effects are a lot better and a lot prettier. Luna was the atrocious looking theme for Windows XP that was full of clashing colors and whatnot (yuck). Classic is the boxy grayish meh theme for all of the Windows OS's preceding Windows XP.
Windows Aero
Aqua
Windows Luna
Windows Classic
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YES, ,That's basically right"? If I took out the words "for Vista" on the end of my post, that's what I was trying to say/get at. I didn't know those skins all had their respective names.
But you called the mac skin magnificent? I must immediately protest. That skin has done nothing but irritate me for two years now, that's how long I've been using one and it's done nothing but make me like it less and less. The colours for it are extremely dull, especially after hours of work on it and having to look at them all the time. As you can tell, I very much dislike mac's skin, however the perfect OS would be mac's power/abilities in an (I'm assuming that it's a good skin) Aero skin using Windows controls.
While Luna, I've yet to see any of these "
clashing colors" since Blue, Green and Red all go hand in hand with each other, what with them all being primary colours. It's not the most beautiful thing in the world to look at but at least it's more comforting on the eye than mac & classic.
I don't think anybody liked classic so nothing to disagree with there, lol..
Personally, the things I like about Aero are its glassy look, its intuitivity, and its . However, Aqua is also really good looking and takes up a lot less memory, and it has much better effects (like I said, stuff that just "disappears" is really outdated nowadays). It's important to note that Aero got a lot of influences and ideas from Aqua (or at least we can assume that, since Aero came years after Aqua).
Yes I totally agree on the Aero comment about the glassy look, that really attracts me to it too but again with the Aqua, It was just not a nice skin to look at or use. By stuff that disappears are you trying to talk about how when you minimize a mac window you it goes down in it's '
Genie' style? It's nice looking that one few milliseconds piece of animation but to instantly assume that they got that from Aqua is jumping the gun a bit, Since Luna itself also carries the same function. Luna's version may not be animated nearly as well but none of it's windows just
disappear, when you minimize it, the window goes down the screen and into the task bar and the windows that do just disappear are when you click the X and then I want it to disappear ASAP to stop wasting my time with a window I don't want/need. like you said, stuff that disappears is really outdated, and that's why the OS skins haven't done that since the classic skin.
I'm still not prepared to risk exploitation by getting Vista. It may look nice but the amount of faults with Vista are just too big, I don't have £40-£70 to spend on something just because it looks nice. When it becomes safer and it's problems sorted out then I shall re-evaluate how I see it.
