Found for my friend.

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A few thoughts:

If you are 40 years or older you probably know what a Commodore 64 is if you were into tech/gaming as a child/adolescent. If you are 35 or younger maybe not. The Amiga was state of the art in 1987. The PC could not match it for many years in the consumer space.

Skinning tech (on all platforms) became more and more advanced and peaked between 2007-2010. After 2010 skinning tech has not seen new developments. Instead we have seen regressions. If skinners and users use the same tech for a decade it gets old. Skinners will be able to come up with new designs, but without tech development it will be like painters who only have access to a limited set of colors. I think skinning will be in a limbo state for the foreseeable future. It's not going to completely die, but without new skinning tech it will be a stagnant art form. The desktop itself is a metaphor that is also stagnant. Mobile is clearly the focus for big business. I'm not blaming anyone for this situation, only saying that the desktop and skinning are past their prime. Tech development is happening elsewhere.

Every computer I have has Winamp on it....good old 2.9x .... probably because it goes back to the dawn of [MS] skinning.....

...and I still have Litestep on a VM somewhere...

Time to move forward.

Too many people cling to the past like some sort of comfort blanket, even after it has become threadbare. Memories are a part of life - but keep them a small part. Too many and they prevent you from creating new ones.

Yeah, and having familiar things in one's life can help make it more tolerable when the memories being made aren't that great because modern times aren't necessarily the best.  The world in many ways is going to hell in a hand-basket, and it seems various people are intent on seeing it that way.

Right now I have my desktop decked out with a Steampunk theme, and that distraction helps me not notice [as much] the chaos and strife going on in the world around us.

Well I had to go back to see when you start this, Nov 25, so I guess you've got me beat.  Any time I've toyed with the idea of leaving WB off a machine I'm pretty sure I've crumbled in a week or less.

Oddly the thing that bugs me the most about the default Win10 is the window caption image.  It's just so ... whatever it is.

Many of us are like this, we have wonderful memories that remain with us for life... especially when those memories involve and are all about our loved ones.  Okay, maybe memories of past skins and themes aren't as poignant, but for some they're more than memories On the PC they're a way of life

Fact is, Microsoft wouldn't recognise a great UI if it jumped up and bit them, much less be able to create one.  THE Windows GUI has been abominable since day one, and it's only the skinners and skinning apps that make Windows bearable to look at for those with more discerning tastes. 

Windows 7 was about the closest thing to a half decent UI MS ever came up with, but after a while it became old hat and skinning it was the only option.  That still is the case with Windows 10, but even moreso.  Skinning it is the only option... because the default UI and icons look like a one-eyed early-schooler designed them using blunt crayons.

Games went from 2D to 3D. The desktop is still 2D. Here's an example of a login screen that is 3D. 3D isn't really useful on the desktop but cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8nm4NpaVXE

We have even lost the pseudo-3D stuff and now everything is flat. That being said I actually think Windows 10 looks decent. MS has shaved windowborders so it looks cleaner than Windows 8.1.

Even the built-in Windows 10 startmenu is OK I think. What is missing from the standard Windows 10 UI are small tweaks. I would like background colour option for Modern apps. The Settings app is either white or black, both can be annoying to the eyes. Same goes for the all white Windows Explorer. I'm not really using Windows 7 anymore which means I lost the ability to use WB with start, taskbar, windowborder and Explorer textures on default MS theme. I used that for 7 years straight. I'm a little hesitant to real skins. I really appreciate the artistic talent and work that go into them, but compatibility can be an issue. I remember people complaining about Firefox. Firefox has no compatibility problems I thought, because the textures made me forget I was using the original MS theme.

I believe possibilities are endless, but after pseudo-3D (icons etc. which I liked), skeumorphic design (which I liked), things turned flat and we may have to wait for new tech and trends. I think real 3D is the future (like in games), but I have no idea if it makes sense on a desktop. I've been using Google Earth recently and it has a 3D view that is both cool and useful.

I spend most of my time in a browser anyway so if the future is going to be cool or not also depends on the kind of content that the web delivers. Latest version of Google Earth is a web-app for Google Chrome so pretty cool stuff can happen in a browser. Maybe 3D websites will be a new thing?

But from Wolfenstein onward, games that wanted to be "3D' always were. [emulated on a 2D screen].

'3D' desktops have been around for decades too....but are hopelessly inept/inefficient and so died a justified death...

Reality is that since a screen/workplace is 2D, and Z-order provides an essential third, there's no actual need for more...

VR is what may or may not be considered true '3D', and it's not a 'screen', it's an environment.

A 'screen' by definition is 2D.  It's a plane.

Holographics is the go-to for S/F futuristic computer interfaces but again it's all bling and no substance [see what I did there?] ...

Yes, VR is considered true 3D by some, but it is an entirely different process, and a 2D screen is unlikely to ever be able to faithfully reproduce that.  The whole environment would have to change, to perhaps doing away with hardware screens altogether and replicating the VR experience on the desktop..... yup, as in no substance.

Thing is, you see that sort of thing in Sci-fi movies and such, so the technology is likely there, just not affordable in the regular world as yet.

For true 3D you have to abandon the screen entirely. Holographic tech is in its infancy. It takes a slew of lasers in various positions to map every nuance of movement ala Princess Leia's projection in the first Star Wars movie. A long way off IMO

Yeah, what is it with OS developers and butt ugly GUIs?   Even some of the Linux ones leave much to be desired.  Ubuntu's isn't too bad, but I'd soon tire of it and want to rip it out for something different.  I remember going for MSStyles to change 98 and XP, because neither of those ever appealed to me visually.  Then I discovered Windowblinds and I haven't looked back.  Apart from being the best UI changing program, the best themes are made for it, too.

Occasionally I go over to devart to check things out, and there are a few WB themes over there, but it seems the MSStyles scene is still going strong, with pages and pages of new stuff going up all the time.  Some of those themes, especially the dark ones, look pretty good, but I wouldn't want to install system hacking software that could cause issues.  Most people don't experience issues, but I have heard of some who uninstalled the software and it broke their machines.  Nope, that's not for me.