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What do you mean by candy themes? Aero?

I think Windows 7 and Windows 10 still have very clear interfaces (I mean Win32 GUIs, not the Metro/Modern stuff no one outside of MS really cares about).

I've never understood however the need to disable Aero and switch to Windows Classic, which looks gray, boring and feels like using Windows 98 again.

Ironically, most of the people I know who used Windows Classic mode switched to Linux later using something like GNOME or Cinnamon and then complained how ugly Windows was in comparison :)

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> I've never understood however the need to disable Aero and switch to Windows Classic, which looks gray, boring and feels like using Windows 98 again.

Gray and boring is good. IMHO, flashy computer UIs are for movies and other cases where actual usability is secondary.

I've always switched to Windows classic, because the menus and icons are more compact, and I can better arrange things so I can access them more quickly. I'm not deficient in motor skills, so the the one thing I don't need is giant, colorful buttons.

> I've never understood however the need to disable Aero and switch to Windows Classic, which looks gray, boring and feels like using Windows 98 again

I've always disabled it. Not because it's awful or anything (I'm neutral to it) but because it uses up machine resources without giving me any particular benefit. There's nothing wrong with the classic look. I don't need my UI to be all flashy. I need it to be functional.

My definition of superfluous eye candy includes the default green and blue theme of Windows XP, Aero in Vista and 7, and Metro in later versions. What you describe as boring is predictable and usable to me.

You guessed right, I run various Linux distributions with Cinnamon on every computer but the gaming one, and I still envy the clean and crisp look of 2000.

Regarding Metro, the new control panel in Windows 10 lacks most settings a normal power user (not a domain admin) needs so all the useful functionality is hidden behind one extra layer.

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Luckily, most of the settings are just one click away for the "old" configuration panel which has all the nice features.

I couldn't like Aero until I disabled opaqueness. Then it was good.

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