[buildbot]

As much (fairly well deserved) hate as Tahoe gets, the video wallpapers and transparency are such a fun Windows Vista vibe I get nostalgia. Time to set this up with the Vista waterfall wallpaper and reallllyyy feel like it’s 2007!

[_kb]

What do you mean Windows Vista "nostalgia"? That makes me feel a little long in the horn.

[Springtime]

> That makes me feel a little long in the horn

I see what you did there :)

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I attended the Longhorn event, where they played Director scripts, and told us it was “live code.”

[geerlingguy]

There are likely a number of folks on this forum now who were born after Vista was released.

[_kb]

Nope. 2007 is like 2 or 3 years ago, tops.

[charcircuit]

Vista released over 19 years ago.

[stavros]

You missed the joke.

[samat]

Still burned they did not ship winFS then

[breppp]

Good thing it eventually grew to replace NTFS

[harrouet]

Vista is what made me get my first Mac. I hope Apple does not make the same mistake.

[ebbi]

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[jermaustin1]

My big problem with Tahoe, is the lock screen animation stutters and freezes CONSTANTLY. I'm on an M3 Pro. If I can watch 4K video with no dropped frames, a simple video background should work as well, and if it doesn't, it shouldn't exist.

[peapicker]

I have this problem a few times a day on my corporate M4 Pro when I lock the screen... with 60Hz set. It happens when the two security monitoring app corporate insists on are scanning harder b/c the screensaver kicked in. My personal macbook pro is fine.

[radley]

Are you using a Studio Monitor? Lock screen videos are incompatible with Settings > Displays > Refresh rate > Adaptive. You have to use a fixed frame rate (60 or 120 Hz).

[riddlemethat]

I’m imagining dozens of people worldwide sharing your nostalgia for Vista.

[Gigachad]

It's called frutiger aero now. Lot of people very bored with modern safe design nostalgic for when tech and UI was weird and bold.

[voidUpdate]

The funniest thing about the "frutiger aero" thing is that it looks nothing like how I remember vista looking

[Gigachad]

It’s the same idea but dialed up to 11. Apple’s Liquid Glass is a more restrained application of the style.

[darkwater]

Let a sufficient amount of time pass, and what people knew in their children/teenage years will be remembered with nostalgia.

[zaps]

“Good old Vista. People give it a bad press but I’m never upgrading, why would I? It just feels like a good pair of jeans.”

[devilbunny]

It wasn’t a horrible OS. It just broke XP’s “it runs on practically anything” before the hardware was really there. And 7 was, as we all know, the most perfect Windows has ever been. Windows 7 Media Center was a magnificent DVR and a great movie-playing box.

[hbogert]

This so depends on the timing. XP was a memory hog when it came out for that generation's hardwarw

[asimovDev]

https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Windows_Vista

which waterfall are you talking about? i am also surprised to see how many wallpapers were apparently available on Vista. All I remember is the default green gradient thingie and I think I had the bamboo forest on at some point

[dspillett]

> All I remember is the default green gradient thingie and…

IIRC at that time users were split fairly completely into three types: those who customised their OS look a lot, sometimes spending far too much time on it (I was one of them back then), those who had developed a preferred look and just kept that as much as possible between OS changes, and those who just used the defaults and got on with whatever else. This means the other wallpaper that someone at MS put effort into collecting together hardly ever got seen: many users kept the one default, and almost all who didn't had something that they chose from other sources. Maybe the other included images might have seen the light of day more often if there had been an explicit “choose your wallpaper” prompt as part of user on-boarding.

[philsnow]

I'm feeling nostalgic for ~1998 when I ran xscreensaver hacks in the background on the root X window (so the "desktop" I guess)

[wpm]

The moving wallpapers are near the first few times but I can't turn it off. I had to dig deep into WallpaperKit (I mean really? It's a friggin wallpaper) to find the static last frame of the wooshy moving BS.