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by crashdancer 752 days ago
It is in the normal control panel, see "Reduce Animation" in the accessibility page.

>All I want is literally the widgets Windows had 20 years ago in all platforms.

This seems to me a very bizarre request. I mean, you can literally do that already: write Windows apps using the old user32 APIs and run them in Wine. But then they will look and behave really out-of-place on non-Windows platforms when all your other apps are using the native toolkit.
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AlienRobot 752 days ago
>write Windows apps using the old user32 APIs and run them in Wine

Honestly, to me this is the actual choice. I've tried using graphics gale (a win32 app) and fire alpaca (a qt app) on linux. Fire alpaca didn't work. Neither the app image nor the windows version on Wine. But graphics gale worked flawlessly.

The future of crossplatform is just everyone writing Win32 API apps, just like every language communicates by a C api.

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crashdancer 752 days ago
I can't agree with that, Wine has been around for a long time and it never really took off for that use. IMO the future of cross-platform is still the web, because "cross-platform" also includes smartphones now.

>Neither the app image nor the windows version on Wine.

That is more the developer's fault. AppImage is a very broken distribution method and IMO it should never be used.

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M95D 752 days ago
I'm doing exactly this. To me, most native apps look out-of-place and I avoid if possible. I just wish running apps in wine wasn't so slow compared to windows.
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crashdancer 752 days ago
>To me, most native apps look out-of-place and I avoid if possible

That doesn't make sense, "out-of-place" here means with respect to the rest of the system and the shell. Doing things that way is guaranteed to result in an inconsistent desktop, so maybe you can understand why that won't really be a supported thing.

For a while I actually used to do something similar to what you're doing. In the early 2000s when OS X was the new thing, I had gotten used to the Mac. So for a while I would only use Qt apps with a Mac-style theme and I would get really upset if something didn't work with it. But I stopped eventually because I realized I was being unreasonable and frustrating my own computer usage for no benefit. IMO it's helpful to recognize when you're in a harmful thought process and break out of it.

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