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Wow! This looks like XP/Win2k. Gotta put this on the parents computer, they'll be happy they got their old Windows back. (They don't really like Xfce)

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The Q4OS distro has an addon called XPQ4 which has some old Windows themes https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/

I like these kind of themes in theory, but they're always a bit janky. Not that they have to be pixel perfect, but they're always broken enough that they're not a pleasure to use.

Maybe they like LXQt more.

XFCE can be themed to be almost identical to XP.

theres a windows 9x total conversion out there iirc

Chicago95 theme for XFCE is great

Looks more legit than Redmond97.

If we go retro then I would go for a MacOS 9 look. Like what this user achieved: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/tsric2/xfce_color...

Beautiful results there!

Takes some tuning but Chicago95 can become a very convincing clone of early Windows GUI. Back when they did user research and every element had methology and reason behind it.

I don't think it's complete but I have that mostly set up with LXQT on NixOS on my Framework desktop. I love it

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