<story><title>Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of this aesthetic. If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy, it&amp;#x27;s very easy to theme KDE to strike a really good balance.&lt;p&gt;As your global theme, use &amp;#x27;Reactionary&amp;#x27;. Set your application style to &amp;#x27;MS Windows 9x&amp;#x27;. For your icons, use &amp;#x27;Memphis98&amp;#x27;. For cursors, &amp;#x27;Hackneyed (scaleable)&amp;#x27;. Your Plasma style, colours, and window decorations should all follow your global theme (Reactionary). I keep the default Noto fonts because I find them quite easy on the eyes, but this is easy to change if you yearn for classic fonts.&lt;p&gt;My task bar (bottom bar) is set to use full names and not combine apps; I also use the application menu that looks like W95, and I&amp;#x27;ve got it set to use a little W95 Start icon for that touch of nostalgia. Otherwise it&amp;#x27;s all very minimalist.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve used this set-up for years and it works really well for me. I find it very conducive to being productive - it&amp;#x27;s stable, unchanging, and respectful of my attention and focus. I also don&amp;#x27;t need to hack away at anything or worry about updates - KDE officially supports theming and handles all of this really seamlessly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qwerty456127</author><text>&amp;gt; If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy&lt;p&gt;My experience suggests &amp;quot;not pixel perfect&amp;quot; usually means severely imperfect to the point of very ugly when Linux WMs try to imitate Windows 95. &amp;quot;Redmond&amp;quot; themes have been around for decades, always ugly as hell, only reminding of Windows 95 very loosely.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux</title><url>https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troad</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of this aesthetic. If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy, it&amp;#x27;s very easy to theme KDE to strike a really good balance.&lt;p&gt;As your global theme, use &amp;#x27;Reactionary&amp;#x27;. Set your application style to &amp;#x27;MS Windows 9x&amp;#x27;. For your icons, use &amp;#x27;Memphis98&amp;#x27;. For cursors, &amp;#x27;Hackneyed (scaleable)&amp;#x27;. Your Plasma style, colours, and window decorations should all follow your global theme (Reactionary). I keep the default Noto fonts because I find them quite easy on the eyes, but this is easy to change if you yearn for classic fonts.&lt;p&gt;My task bar (bottom bar) is set to use full names and not combine apps; I also use the application menu that looks like W95, and I&amp;#x27;ve got it set to use a little W95 Start icon for that touch of nostalgia. Otherwise it&amp;#x27;s all very minimalist.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve used this set-up for years and it works really well for me. I find it very conducive to being productive - it&amp;#x27;s stable, unchanging, and respectful of my attention and focus. I also don&amp;#x27;t need to hack away at anything or worry about updates - KDE officially supports theming and handles all of this really seamlessly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleSlacky</author><text>You could also just use the &amp;quot;Redmond&amp;quot; theme with the Trinity DE:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;baloo.neocities.org&amp;#x2F;TheGuide&amp;#x2F;TheGuide-Part1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;baloo.neocities.org&amp;#x2F;TheGuide&amp;#x2F;TheGuide-Part1&lt;/a&gt; (bottom of page)</text></comment>