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Wish I could go back to those XP days. I always feel calmer whenever I see that wallpaper or the Mac OS X Leopard background. In reality I think it is just that I am tired of seeing flat design everywhere.

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That’s interesting, I also feel calmer when I see the Tiger wallpapers.

That might be a pretty honest way to see which part of your life brought you the most peace.

Yes you described it better than I could have. It is a kind of nostalgia for the past moments of peace. I was in High School during the XP era and going into college into the Leopard era. Both were times where I wish I could redo so many things but also times where things were so exciting about the future and life in general.

My laptop runs Xubuntu with Chicago95[0] and a high-res Bliss wallpaper[1]. (A complete mishmash, I know.) Too bad websites and other apps don't look that way.

[0] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

[1] https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi

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