I prefer win 95 over the modern sh¡tfest, but what I really miss is the shiny aqua stuff that make you want to lick the screen. I couldn't even afford a Mac at the time, so I had the aqua-like themes on gnome (back when you could configure stuff and have it not break early the following week).
"back when you could configure stuff and have it not break early the following week"
Exactly, but this was true on every GUI EXCEPT the vaunted Mac. For what, two decades, you could set up your own system-wide color scheme under Windows, which would be inherited by all competent apps. I set up a nice, non-inverse (today's trendy "dark") scheme in 1991 and used it into the 2000s. Then, just before everyone finally realized that staring at black text on a glaring white screen all day sucks... Microsoft removed the scheme editor from Windows entirely.
The Windows shitshow has only gotten more rank from there. Not knowledgable enough to weigh in on Linux and Unix GUIs.
