Gimp's mascot is in some kind of hard drugs in that icon
FrostyCaveman 11 points 2 years ago
Looks like Crash Bandicoot on drugs
lessthanluigi 11 points 2 years ago
Looks like an analog horror version of GIMP and I love it. It has that early 3D modeling program vibes, while not fully being 32-bit colors just yet.
qjkxbmwvz 19 points 2 years ago
Multiple desktops, 1999. What an amazing feature.
A quick web search suggests that macOS (then OS X) got this in 2007 ("Spaces"), and Windows not until 2015.
This alone makes this GUI more functional IMHO.
XTL 9 points 2 years ago
Most Unix systems had it in CDE, 1993. Most also had it in whatever came before.
The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000, released in 1985.
The first implementation of virtual desktops for Unix was vtwm in 1990.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop
It had been the expected default for pretty much an entire decade. Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll. Not sure if anyone really liked using that.
qjkxbmwvz 6 points 2 years ago
Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll.
I remember encountering that the first time I used Linux! Can't recall personally finding a good use for it but...neat I guess?
wildflower 12 points 2 years ago
Xkill... Now that's a name I havent heard in a long time :-)
lord_ryvan 7 points 2 years ago
Or Netscape, for that matter
MonkderDritte 7 points 2 years ago
It's still around and kicking unresponsive windows.
xorg-xkill on Arch, bound to alt+esc for me.
wildflower 5 points 2 years ago
It’s still around and kicking unresponsive windows.
I know, but I haven't used it since I switched to Debian ;-)
disheveledWallaby 4 points 2 years ago
KDE has it built in to default key binding of Ctrl + Meta + Esc helpful when in Wayland as xkill only works on X and xwayland apps.
LeFantome 4 points 2 years ago
I just said this above but this desktop is still available. It is called The Trinity Desktop now.
seedoubleyou 9 points 2 years ago
i want those icons back
nyan 2 points 2 years ago
I think that's the old locolor icon theme. The version I have around is modified for TDE, but the original should exist somewhere out there (if OpenSUSE is still offering KDE3, then they probably have it).
NoisyFlake 4 points 2 years ago
Jesus, UI design was terrible back then. I'm not talking about technical limitations, I don't need fancy transparency effects or something like that, but I'm sure that you could come up with something much better using the old UI libraries as long as you follow modern design principles.
thayer 4 points 2 years ago
It's probably just familiarity bias, but I really like the classic 3D design elements of the '90s desktops. I was a big fan of the Windows classic shell, NeXTSTEP and Openbox UIs. And even though I think both GNOME and KDE look fantastic today, I would still happily use a CDE-style UI if I could do so consistently.
acockworkorange 2 points 2 years ago
Hey, where do you find the ISOs for these old distros?
Mr_nutter_butter 1 point 2 years ago
Seeing all these makes me wish for a classic Linux de that just gives you all of that again
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Ooh damn. Mandrake was my first distro, I remember being sooo excited when the CDs came in the mail. It was I think 4 discs?
The experience was absolutely not good lol. At the time I only had one computer (some eMachines something or other) and a 56k line that only went to 14400 or 2600 baud depending on the weather. My NIC wasn't supported and after some banging my head on the desk I ended up going back to windows 98se after a few days because it was the family computer I messed up and caught sooo much flak for wiping.
Returned some years later when it was called Mandriva and had a better experience with a custom built AMD machine. The eMachines machine by then was still around as a network file server running a flavour of BSD that served media to my OG xbox played through XBMC (now Kodi).
Great post OP and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
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