• derfunkatron@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I have to use Windows and Teams for work and I’m starting to feel like a computer historian or an operating system archeologist every time I use my work PC.

    Someone called me directly on Teams the other day and the old Skype ringtone played; now I already knew that MS absorbed Skype but it was weird because the actual ringtone is sort of low-fi, like it’s probably the same 20 year old .wav file.

    I’m pretty sure the new W11 file explorer is just Edge which is just Chrome.

    I feel like I’m looking at geological layers whenever I dive into OS settings.

    Some window skins are clearly from Vista.

    Aesthetically it is a nightmare, but it also clearly demonstrates that W11 is six operating systems in a trenchcoat.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      12 days ago

      W11 is six operating systems standing on each other’s shoulders, wearing a trenchcoat

      i seem to have ended up with my linux install being six desktop environments walking in a row, wearing a horse costume