[edoceo]

Wow! This looks like XP/Win2k. Gotta put this on the parents computer, they'll be happy they got their old Windows back. (They don't really like Xfce)

[_vqpz]

The Q4OS distro has an addon called XPQ4 which has some old Windows themes https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/

[skerit]

I like these kind of themes in theory, but they're always a bit janky. Not that they have to be pixel perfect, but they're always broken enough that they're not a pleasure to use.

[29athrowaway]

Maybe they like LXQt more.

XFCE can be themed to be almost identical to XP.

[mghackerlady]

theres a windows 9x total conversion out there iirc

[wild_egg]

Chicago95 theme for XFCE is great

[29athrowaway]

Looks more legit than Redmond97.

If we go retro then I would go for a MacOS 9 look. Like what this user achieved: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/tsric2/xfce_color...

[accrual]

Beautiful results there!

[accrual]

Takes some tuning but Chicago95 can become a very convincing clone of early Windows GUI. Back when they did user research and every element had methology and reason behind it.

[packetlost]

I don't think it's complete but I have that mostly set up with LXQT on NixOS on my Framework desktop. I love it