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To: dayglored

Thank you for sharing! I would like to see a GUI Win 7 theme for Cinnamon myself. But no one has made one yet. They have them that dresses it up like XP and Win 10, but not Win 7. If I had extra time... :)


115 posted on 06/20/2021 8:51:42 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind
> ...a GUI Win 7 theme for Cinnamon...

Yeah, although that's just "window dressing". A Windows-like theme for Linux is visually appealing, but what you need is actual support for the bazillions of Windows programs that call the incredibly complex Windows/NT/NTFS APIs. Microsoft's been doing the proprietary vendor lock-in schtick since the early days of MS-DOS, and they're still in that same mindset.

To successfully blend Windows and Linux, they'll have to develop an API shim over the Linux kernel, so that traditional Windows-only programs can call it. It couldn't possibly cover every single system call, much less mimic all the undocumented behaviors. So a lot of Windows-only programs will have to adapt themselves.

The current Linux integration in Windows is in the other direction -- making the Linux kernel run over the Windows system calls. That's a necessary desperation move, because MS watched in horror as the software development world embraced Linux as the development platform of choice.

116 posted on 06/20/2021 10:58:07 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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