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Trans-scriptionRoughly ME era Windows is open to an install wizard labeled “Gender 2.0 - InstallShield Wizard”.

On the right side, the text “Thank you for reinstalling your gender!” appears bolded followed by two options: “Reinstall using default settings (recommended)” and “Custom install (advanced)”. The latter option has the subtext “Choose your gender expression, pronouns, and other features.”

To the left in the wizard is a trans flag.

At the very bottom of the image is a TikTok user handle @ellienotsmellie

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[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

A bit off topic, but I love this era of interface design so much. If there was a desktop environment for Linux that replicated Windows 95/98/ME faithfully I'd install it in a heartbeat. ReactOS has a dark theme that also goes hard.

Thank you for coming to my little talk cat-trans

[-] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

closest i can get you is this theme and collection of scripts for the XFCE desktop https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

ive used it in the past for my own nostalgia purposes and it does re-create the effect pretty damn good, though it does get funny sometimes when you throw in non-GTK apps (or if they have the extra thick title bar, GNOME style, (god i hate GNOME))

another option in a similar vein is nsCDE https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE which attempts to re-create the CDE desktop look-and-feel from 90s and early 2000s UNIX workstations

ive used this one too and the paradigm shift in how to use a desktop can definitely be felt if you've only ever used windows-style environments. it takes some getting used to but the aesthetics are very nice

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Chicago95 is actually pretty damn close, time to mess around with it in a VM and maybe I'll throw it on my laptop for giggles and nostalgia. Also haven't seen CDE in a long time, really brought back the Linux for PlayStation 2 memories, lol.

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