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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by toyg on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:34AM (#25344772)
Windows actually used to be decent and fairly consistent, but I agree that it's gone to shit in the last decade. They botched scaling to HiDpi and fragmented their UIs in the sad attempt to chase convergence with touch UIs.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by jcelerier on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:07PM (#25348070)
did it ? except win 3.1 (but then I was a small kid) I remember a huge majority of apps having their own little fancy skins in 98, XP, etc
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by toyg on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:28PM (#25361939)
Majority? Not as I recall it. Some, yeah - famously winamp, which made it compulsory for music players (hence generating a river of tacky UIs). But in my world the majority of apps had the good old “top-bar-menu-icons, File menu, Edit menu, etc” format.
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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:48PM (#25349672)
They are my last hope to get a decent UI now.
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