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I hate to say this, because I know how cringe it is, but... Windows 7 actually removed a lot of features that made Windows fun.  And yeah, I'm talking about ricing and I'm unironically saying _ricing is valid_.

The mid 2000s was an awesome time to be in the ricing community - between litestep, blackbox, foobar2k, rainlendar/rainmeter etc, you could actually make your experience look however you wanted.

And, litestep in particular, for me, was a gateway drug to openbox and therefore Linux - when you finally hit The Windows Wall, where, to go any further, you had to step into Linux, Ubuntu was there, and then Mint, and then..idr what.  

I still have my 2007 Ubuntu installation cd _that they mailed to me for free_. Sure, you could just make your own installation cd rom, but, if you couldn't, they would happily mail you one - or, as in my case, you felt motivated to evangelize, they'd send you a bunch that you could give out to people. I gave mine to friends and left some others at the local anarchist bookstore (I don't remember the name of it but this was Washington DC just north of Chinatown).

Windows 7 was a big step backwards. You could still do a lot of ricing, but less - and it was very clear from the direction that Windows 7 went, that whatever came next would be worse.


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