Haha, Windows had square windows long before 8.
replyIf I could run the Windows 2000 UI on a modern OS I would but any recent clone/theme/etc feels too uncanny valley.
My custom XFWM theme has square corners on windows without focus and large-radius rounded corners on the one window with focus.
replyThe square corners are part of a 2 pixel wide border (one black, one white) because who needs to waste space on handling things we aren't manipulating? But the title bar is high-contrast, because you'll go looking for it when you want to switch windows.
The round corners go with a fairly thick border in a customizable color, usually something very bright in the yellow, orange or cyan ranges. When you sit down, you should immediately know what is active.
I like rounding the corners on i3. It is a bit wasteful but the base WM is so efficient with my pixels that I have some to spare.
replyNot having i3 is truly the worst part about Macs.
reply(Yes, please tell me about some buggy half-compatible tiling window manager for my Mac.)
For real. Doesn't help that the three/four finger swipe between full screen windows/workspaces has a mandatory animation that you can't disable (you can turn on "reduce motion", but it simply changes the scrolling animation into an equally time-wasting fading animation).
replySurely MacOS has some nice virtual machine that you could run Linux in?
replyVirtual machines aren't the solution for day-to-day computing though. You're missing out on the graphics acceleration, being able to plug things in that just work, and so on.
replyIf you're running your UI on a Linux VM....why not just used Linux?
replyUTM.
replyYou were being sarcastic, but aerospace is100% worth setting up
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