Making your Linux look like Vista

#1
Hektor

Posted 18 October 2007 - 04:28 PM

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So I was browsing around reading about Linux and came across another forum with a link to several types of Linux Desktops.

One of them actually makes your x-windows look exactly like Vista which I am going to try :)

http://vixta.sourceforge.net/

#2
Guest_KernelKorn_*

Posted 19 October 2007 - 12:19 AM

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As quirky an idea as that might be, why would you want to do that?! The reason I have always run a linux box is to AVOID the world of MS, so I certainly wouldn't want to make my nice system look like the beast....

#3
Prog

Posted 19 October 2007 - 04:23 AM

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I think it actually looks pretty neat. If Linux could look more appealing then I believe more people would use it.

#4
Guest_profit_*

Posted 19 October 2007 - 11:48 AM

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How does linux not look appealing? Have you ever sat a nix box and a windows box side by side, same monitor's and used the same back rounds? Nix is quite nicer looking, you just need to know how to work it. :)

#5
Prog

Posted 19 October 2007 - 12:32 PM

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profit said:

No, I haven't ever set them side-by-side. Maybe I should just to see :)

#6
Guest_Jordan_*

Posted 19 October 2007 - 12:42 PM

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I saw this on another forum this morning. It looks just like Vista.

#7
Valor

Posted 19 October 2007 - 01:04 PM

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I am a console/shell guy. I rarely ever use a GUI.

#8
Guest_KernelKorn_*

Posted 21 October 2007 - 05:47 PM

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I really cannot stand anything that MS makes. So I wouldn't want to make my *nix system looking windows like. I have run on dual boot, XP and Mandrake and really and truly I prefer the look of Mandrake to the cartoonish windows. The child like look is just annoying. Linux is cleaner and more professional looking.