Transforming Linux into Windows 95! - Chicago95 Installation & Demo
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Today we're checking out Chicago95, a transformation pack for the XFCE desktop environment. It makes your system look a lot more like Windows 95. And thanks to Chicagofier, it's very straightforward to install system-wide.
Chicago95: github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
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Cheers everyone for all the kind comments about Chicago95 and Chicagofier, and cheers MJD for checking both of them out.
Remember, if you want to support this theme, support the Chicago95 project as Chicagofier wouldn't be possible without them!
Note-worthy changes since this video:
- Pale Moon with Moonscape theme is now an option for Firefox replacing (suggested by Chicago95's creator)
- Keep Firefox will now give the option to install a IE4 wannabe texture (from Chicago95 directly) at the very least (also suggested by grassmunk)
- Replace Firefox? is now skipped if Firefox isn't found
I'll likely come back in the future to reply with any other major changes when appropriate, I guess.
Oh, and one more note, as a thing MJD missed (probably 'cos I didn't tell him about it):
You'll find wallpapers and whatnot in your Pictures folder once you've ran Chicagofier.
i wouldn't recommend pale moon due to an unoptimized codebase that hasn't really been maintained/aged that well.
the chicago95 cover of the windows 95 startup sound sounds awfully good
Why not leave Firefox untouched and install Epiphany separately with all the modifications? I don't see a reason why they would conflict, unless it's specific to how the theme is applied to the system
@@kusucks991 People probably wouldn't want Firefox installed at that point anyway, and for all I know someone might do it and not even know how to remove the browser the OS came with.
To be fair, you can always just reinstall Firefox after the fact, anyway, from Software, if you want it, but I'd assume most would only want the single browser they use installed solely.
The original Windows 95 design is underappriciated in my opinion. It was the last time windows had a clear and *consistent* look. It may not have been pretty, but it was fast and efficent. There was no doubt about what was clickable and what wasn't, what elements belonged to the same group, and things didn't reveal/hide themselves based on mouse hover.
Windows XP royale theme cries in the corner.
What about 2000/Me? Or 98? Or even XP or Vista?
@@badcatalex or 7?
I think xp up to 7 is quite consistent, a taskbar and a start menu at the bottom left. Well... 8 however... it goes down hill. (And I switched to Linux at that point, so... yeah)
@@aiosquadron I really like design of Windows 8. Metro theme with legacy windows apps.
Windows 10 is just modern apps that depend on half working old ones as they have been crippled. Windows 10 just doesn't look right.
Windows 10 is kinda like a lazy teen "cleaning" his room. It looks like it's fine and working, just don't look into the wardrobe or under the bed.
Also Windows 8 allows me a lot more control over the updates. In 10 it's all or nothing. Sure there is downloadable tool from Microsoft which lets you choose which updates you want, or at least that's the theory. When I tried it there was just 1 security update I could stop but I wanted something else anyway. Still not as detailed as Linux but better than 10.
I'm not a Xfce fan myself but the fact that the devs keep the desktop rather consistent than trying to improve where not necessary, this Chicago95 should work for a very very very long time.
I used this theme on my pc for a while
it was pretty cool seeing a desktop pc that looks like windows 95 runs doom 2016
Now fool everyone even more by running Unreal Engine 5
Paint it beige and solder a keyboard to the body, then add a "Windows 95" sticker to the case.
@@Sithhy wait, did Unreal Engine we know today were originally the game engine of Unreal Tournament?
@@shiro3146yep
So nostalgic, these old 95 images.
Lovin it! A lot of recent distros have removed the Redmond themes and it irritates me.
@@kreuner11 Many distros have a Redmond theme that looks like Windows 9x (Redmond is the location where Microsoft originates from)
I believe Redmond was a GTK2 theme so it probably got discontinued with it.
You can download it if you need it lol. It’s bloatware that copies bloatware.
@@kreuner11 basically a windows 95 theme found in many desktop environments and in an OS called SerenityOS
I think Ubuntu MATE still has it?
Michael: "Hello everybody!" / Me: "Awwww yissssss"
yo
Huw aka 'MajorSky17' : "Hey there, Windowers!"
I was already impressed, and then when I saw it can use .theme files from Plus, I was even more impressed.
Using Chicago95 on my Gentoo machine and it's really comfy
who asked though?
@@dogxcs1485 Your ego
@@supreme_xenon my ego isn't a person so it can't ask for anything
@@dogxcs1485 I asked
@@yeppiidev but where and when?
I love Windows 95 aesthetic.
My fav win release was win2000pro looked like 95/98 and loved it .. used it till hardware forced me to upgrade to xp
2000 was my favorite
Needed to add .. after i was forced to xp i used classic mode
5:38 Pretty funny to see "C:\" in the icon for a terminal emulator on Linux.
All you have to do is rename your root directory
@@charliekahn4205 That sounds like a good idea i bet nothing could go wrong...
I never knew I needed this, but i'm tempted too install all of these at work and see if the other employees freak out or just go with it.
Finally a theme that looks like how Xfce feels to use :P
For real, I want to remake this in open box
yea, now we can turn off the gtk theming window on wine.
@@thereaImodder hahahaha
What?
Then you're using it wrong.
And/or haven't updated to 4.16.
And aren't using a good compositor.
I'd rather have a 98 version. Can't beat those titlebar gradients!
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone has made a gradiented 9X style XFWM4 theme yet...?
@@ThatLinuxDude It's impossible in XFWM4 because it tiles bitmaps for the borders, I have ran into this problem when porting the Luna theme because on XP it's a stretched bitmap which cannot be done in XFWM4. I did see someone with a 98 looking Linux desktop I think they used the marco window manager.
Mate has something like that.
@@OddMan360 How about KDE? When using Linux, I use KDE anyway.
@@UltimatePerfection No idea, I don't use KWin :P
I submitted a PR for implementing stretched bitmap support into XFWM4 a few months ago - 98 gradient titlebars would be possible if/when it gets merged.
I wish Windows 10 supported custom themes better, I remember how easy it was with 3rd party software between the XP and 7 era, now they just break after every update or just don't work or aren't that accurate
Get that retro look without the retro security vulnerabilities and with all the features of a modern OS! I love it!
I've been using Chicago95 for the last month and it's peak UI/UX design
When I saw an MJD vid about Linux my first reaction was to send it Dominic's way
then I saw he's the one responsible for this video
really should've expected that
Ive been using chicago 95 for a while now and was very surprised to see you make a video about it
I love the fact that he has these things shooting across the screen like the 2018 firefox logo at 3:40 and the other firefox logo i think about 15 seconds earlier. Hats off to you dude for somehow making this stuff actually enjoyable!
Thank you,
I have honestly been looking for something exactly like this!
Awesome video, Michael!
Me saying this is getting old isn't it but it is a really good video. Point is: I love watching your videos!
Honestly, I wish there was a theme like that but transforming modern Linux desktops into their past counterparts, for example, MATE looking like GNOME 1 or 2, or KDE Plasma 5 looking like KDE 1 or 2. That was an idea I had but ended up shelving indefinitely to focus on another project.
There's the TraditionalOk theme for MATE, which is almost a perfect copy of the Clearlooks theme from Gnome 2.
Some Linux content? Oh, yeah! I'd love to see that! (I'm using Linux right now, Windows is my 2nd favorite OS, 3rd MacOS)
Using Chicago95 on my Linux Lite and it looks more like Windows 12 than Windows 12!
And now we actually have a Windows 11 (soon...), we can say that Windows will sue the person who "made" Windows 12.
Gotta say, Xfce is really customizable, that is, if you know what you're doing
Definitely. If you don’t know what you are doing you can break it easily.
And even if you don't. I've done some crazy things with no experience.
id say the only de more customizable is mate, which is pretty similar to xfce in the first place
@@k1j1j1jI would say KDE Plasma is the most customizable, followed by Xfce, MATE / GNOME 2, then Cinnamon, then Unity, then GNOME 3.0 and later, and then finally Pantheon, which has by far the least amount of customization of any current DE.
A new video making my day better
This would go well with my XFCE install on my laptop, what a good timing!
In time. Thank you, I needed this.
Love it!
Are you gonna do a vid on the Alienware + Toshiba laptops?
I Really Enjoy your Videos:D
Never been this early on an MJD vid :D
An MJD vid has never been this early
Exact same thought.
I'm glad this project exists, it clearly does a better modernization of the desktop. That said, XPQ4 in Q4OS is a much closer experience. Trinity is just far more modular for something like this, being forked from old KDE instead of something forked from GNOME.
you should also look into Dominic's other script that preceded the Chicagofier
the Feren Moefier
aah yes :)
the epic moefier
Congrats on the 200k Michael!
Thank you Jack!
This reminds me somewhat of fvwm95, which was always one of my favorite window managers when I used Linux.
clap and a half for this amazing pack!! I love it
omg... i like it, i really like it. i miss the buttons and simplicity of old UIs
Cool! I will make sure to try it!
Thank you so much, I was getting overwhelmed by the "requires gtk+" etc and trying to install that stuff manually, I look this up and there's a simple script
Maybe you can cover about the XPQ4, it basically turn the Trinity/KDE Plasma desktop in the Q4OS (a Debian-based distro) into Windows XP and other themes from another version of Windows.
i Love your Linux videos and your old windows 98 and xp videos your so awesome man God Bless
Good work, Dominic! :D
Yessssss!!!!!!!!
Make sure you install the actual Windows95 font as your text, otherwise the icons on your start menu look weird. Make the taskbar a bit shorter in height too and the icons on your desktop smaller.
Great video, No surprise there!
Ok this is cool af. I might show my dad this one to bring him back to his old days.
@Micheal MJD Well done on 200K subscribers!
Thank you!
You're welcome! Will you show your face, Mjd?
Thank YOU for replying @@MichaelMJD
Im a huge Gnome enjoyer but this theme is the single reason im considering switching to xfce.
Linux is truly amazing. Amazing video. :)
The thing I like about linux is its customization. Also great video like always MJD!
Chicago 95 is great. There are a few other nice and oldschool looking GTK themes but this one takes that Windows 95 look a step further.
For full effect: Gedit to replace Notepad/Wordpad, LibreOffice for MS-Word (there's a generic Windows icon theme extension for LO), SMPlayer for Media Player, Image-Magick for images, and there's a Pinball clone that's really close.
The Space Cadet Pinball flatpak is really good! I highly recommend it! 😂
Whenever I watch a michael mjd video a new video shows in my notifications
I am using twister ui on my Linux mint laptop. although the Twister ui manager doesn't work it still has all the themes available to use and you mix them around. I am using XP theme with dark window backgrounds. Looks really cool!
I appreciate Windows and Linux…
Windows and Linux appreciate you too
I been wanting something just like this for Linux for years
You can actually apply custom icon packs to Libre Office and I'm sure there's a windows 95 theme some where on the internet
I'm literally just here because you use XFCE.
I've been thinking of creating my own DE with some newer concepts, but XF is so far the closest think I know to the idea besides maybe K.
I jumped on Linux in the 2000s , but I'm not going to lie, I would like something like this. The Win9x look and feel imo just works well.
Never been this fuckin' early on a michael mjd video, 15 MINUTES?!?!?
awesome video!
NICE ONE MAN!!
200k subs😁 nice MJD
The pack looks nice
wish you dive a bit more into the linux side. this was a nice video tbh, what about making a video about linux origins and how it ended being what it is now
btw, yeah... stuff goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrr lmao
Oooohh this looks good
Oh boy I think I felt something in my core! But I’ll still with my configuration of kde. Spent too much time making it truly my own environment
I am using Firefox 78 ESR right now (On Debian Buster) and it actually is taking a similar theme it's pretty slick. I am going to confuse the heck out of my peers at uni!
Now we need this on Windows 10 and 11 Insider Preview.
I would recommend trying this but for Mac os and modern windows. Maybe windows xp also? KDE has an awesome environment for customization and I really would enjoy watching it
FINALLY SOMEONE BIG MADE AN ACTUAL VIDEO ON THIS!
You're welcome for me pointing MJD towards Chicago95.
Also thank "Windows on Windows" for giving me the idea to tell MJD in the first place.
loving it
That’s a pretty clever way to dodge the copyright with that startup sound cover.
Maybe!
It's also pretty easy to replace it with the actual startup sound, so yeah.
I always liked the Rainy Day theme, particularly the Windows 98 version, because the title bar could have two colors. If I could get that, with a Windows NT 4 logon / logoff screen..........it would be awesome.
thank you i needed this lol
looks very cool , is the browser epiphany safe? would you recommend this linux theme for someone not familiar with Linux before but to get used to it ? just for web browsing and using office *libre office
I love it! Is there something similar that transforms Linux into Windows 3X? Using a port of the classic progman.
Nothing went wrong? Is this even a Michael MJD video xD
That’s what you get when you run Linux
@@ErzaRosenberg That Linux is a flawless OS?
@@supreme_xenon Its not flawless but its the next best thing to it, better QA and resolution than MS, and IF something goes wrong it tells you exactly how to fix it. Not to mention a lot more secure and a lot more privacy features.
That animation where you flash "Dominic Hayes" on the screen was way to fast for the more compressed 30 fps versions of this vid xD it made my eyes hurt a lot at 480p
heh, I still use this theme from time to time. I also have a Mac-OS9-like inspired theme and a BeOS one as well.
I liked that, MajorSky17!
I think they should build their own standalone distro (maybe Ubuntu-based) with this whole ecosystem!
Debian based if you want old and stable or even Fedora based if they want the latest kernels and drivers and be stable.
Love it i love using Windows 95!
Yes. I love it
Looks rad. Wish there was something like this to turn win11 into 98
Gonna install this on my steam deck
If I ever buy some used thinkpad I am going to install distro with xfce and this theme :D
off topic talk did you delete your Phoenix video because of my comment that i wrote about the breach that happened (it was real btw)? also love your videos!
Well this is an unusual upload time I say
Chicago95... That's What I Want!
I got the windows xp theme on my linux mint. I love that theme and it really messes with people in voice chats when I screen share.
Your motto is "hello, and welcome back to another video!"
MajorSky's motto is: "Hey there, Windowers! And welcome to another series of Windows On Windows part of the development process of [insert windows os system here]!"
The aesthetic. Downloaded.
I love it, although I use KDE.
Excelent video, deberias probar Twister OS for PC, tiene skin de Windows 95-XP and 7.
Chicago 95 looks nice
Could have used the win95 font to make it even better. Otherwise, great video.
MJD do u plan any new video with windows 98 pc?
95/95 would definitely install again
@michaelmjd I had an interesting thought today as I was playing around with Windows 2000. Would it be possible to run Mypal or KMeleon on 2K with KernelEX?