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I don't remotely want to use Windows 2000 again, but it is interesting to see a version of Windows where the UI was consistent. Currently it is a mishmash of four generations of GUI toolkits, some UI is in one style, some UI is another, etc, etc

I've found Windows 11 to actually look quite consistent/good -- nearly as good as macOS.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/windows_2000_best_mic...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653421

I tried to install Visual Basic 6 on it but couldn't get past SSL errors in the installed Firefox version to even download the ISO. Sad.

The reason I've been on Xfce since at least 2010, it still works the same.

I feel like open-source inherently has alignment with users and blockers to enshitification

It helps but is no panacea: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/ubunt...