Hey guys, here's a new episode of the old format in which an operating system is tried out. These will be fairly rare as the focus will be mostly software, but expect these OS try out videos to come out occasionally too. I hope you all enjoy it :) For those who want to see a clearer picture of the "Watercolor Taskbar" I designed as a concept in this video, you can check that out here: i.imgur.com/Wpf3EQX.png
Wow I never tied that together myself, your mom is totally right on the theme. So many aspects of the Watercolour theme would translate sooo well to Windows 10. Like, way too nicely.
Too bad they still opted to flat color even after Fluent design introducing in 2017 and Windows 11 only make them rounded color (mica title bar only for several apps)
I missed this format! This video feels just like the old OS trying videos! Super nostalgic, and I’m excited to see even more of these OS videos from you and Diana!
I kinda miss these OS reviews. Lots of new Linux UIs (and updates to existing UIs) have been created since the last time you did this, so I'm hoping you'll have a look at some new DEs soon 👀
@@OsFirstTimer As for a unique DE, I'd definitely recommend the MaXX Interactive Desktop, which has many similarities with IRIX though with a few features not implemented yet, so I'd recommend installing a launcher like Rofi and adding it to the toolchest by modifying the chestrc, and due to its similarities with IRIX, it would perhaps be best for Ben to try it out as Diana has previously tried out IRIX before, though there are a few key differences. Overall, it is certainly a very unique Linux DE that is rather different than the usual Linux experience. You can't even install it using a package manager, due to proprietary components which is because of the license granted by SGI for the author of MaXX to recreate the experience of IRIX back when they were still a company. However, there are clear and easy-to-follow installation instructions on the official website.
@@OsFirstTimer GNOME 40 is pretty weird. Diana hated GNOME Shell back in GNOME 3 days so you should do a comparison. Plasma hasn't changed much honestly, but it has definitely improved. Might be nice to revisit Plasma since she thought it was literally perfect back on Arch Linux. Enlightenment, Budgie and Deepin might be the weirdest Linux DEs she hasn't tried, short of, like, starting from scratch with a tiling WM like i3/Sway/Awesome/dwm, which are very very weird but very time consuming to set up.
Also, from the world of Linux phones we've got Sailfish, Plasma Mobile, Lomiri (from Ubports), LuneOS UI and Phosh. Out of these Sailfish and Lomiri are the most abstract and trying a stable OS stack on a supported phone (I repeat, on a supported phone) would be interesting. Finally, we've got a new competitor in the world of TVs, recently introduced: Plasma Bigscreen. Compatible with Mycroft, which is a voice assistant to compete with Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri, and Cortana. Though you won't find a lot to do on Bigscreen and it's probably not very stable. But it'd be interesting to see Diana fiddle with a TV, like with Android TV or Apple TV, or even Tizen (Samsung) or LG's webOS. All support voice commands, I think (Apple TV I'm not sure, but the rest all do.)
Missed this. I'm wasn't a huge fan of the games through time and I prefer this kind of content, but keep do what you want to do and I'll stay along the whole time =D
Yeah, the operating system reviewing/destroying was what I watched for. During the game period I stopped watching. I was excited to see a new non-gaming video.
I remember I saw some guys saying that the Watercolor theme was just a burner theme, so rivals didn’t copied the look and feel of the Luna theme before XP camed out.
@@Ananasij Yeah, I saw. Not as many major changes are happening... Although the actual OS build download has been leaked, so better yet Diana can probably try out the OS 😊
They are readily documented and available online which is super important for historic software preservation. I'm really glad people are dedicated to backing this stuff all up :)
@@OsFirstTimer Yeah, just would like to say that I would like to see a descruction video of this Windows verson. Would you be instred in doing a longhorn video of this same video? I know they take a long time to make, you do a amazing job!
I’ve been rewatching your videos all day! I’m so glad you uploaded :) Edit - I noticed you got a new CPU, does that mean you just upgraded the CPU or the whole pc?
Haha, something new to watch :D I got a new PC from MWave in 2020, it was faulty for an entire year, so they eventually gave me a full refund and I got a new PC this year from them. The new PC is perfect :)
this reminds me of when i came home from school and i saw a new video in this format. dude thank you so fricking much im happy that you decided to go back to the old format for this video thank you phil and diana.
I really like that watercolour theme; they should have kept it 💙 I hope that Microsoft come up with something similar for Windows 10 to polish up its flat appearance Nice video, keep up the great work 👍 Will Diana ever try out an operating system in a different language again? I thought maybe Croatian because of her heritage?
@@OsFirstTimer It could be any foreign language, it was just Croatian that popped into my head because of that connection. Or maybe let Ben try it out…
You guys get a lot of emails lol (gmail notifs sound) So happy to see Diana testing operating systems coming back! Would love to see Diana try the new MacOS Monterey since a lot has changed since High Sierra - Sean (subscriber since 10k ;) love your channel)
Looking At Beta Version Of Operating Systems, Or Anything In General Can Be So Interesting, Just To See What Never Saw The Light Of Day. It's Pretty Cool You Showcased My Second Favorite Windows Beta (First Being Windows Longhorn Build 4074).
Dang it Phil! I was just about to go to bed :P But on a serious note, the lore the Whistler code name has to do with the roadmap of Windows at the time. Microsoft planned on three releases of Windows, codenamed Whistler, Longhorn, and Blackcomb. Whistler and Blackcomb would be major releases while Longhorn would be a smaller release. The idea was that to get from the Whistler to Blackcomb mountains, you would have to pass a Longhorn bar and grill. Same with Windows. To get from Whistler (XP) to Blackcomb, you would have to pass through Longhorn (Vista). But as we know, this didn’t turn out, and Longhorn was a much larger release than we expected, and Blackcomb was pretty much scrapped, atleast in the way Microsoft originally wanted it. If you wanna know a little more history on Windows codenames, this naming scheme postdates their sea-god based naming scheme, with Neptune, Oddessy, and Triton, where Neptune was for home users (there only exists one build of it online), Oddessy was for business users (no leaked builds), and Triton was just a small update to Neptune. But famously, they merged the Oddessy and Neptune teams to work on Whistler, and the rest is history. I also wanted to ask if you and Diana were planning on testing this “new generation of Windows” they plan on releasing in a few weeks, assuming they call it Windows 11. Maybe they will bring back the watercolor theme, which IMO should’ve been used as the default Windows Basic theme in XP.
It probably won’t be called Windows 11 because Microsoft stated that Windows 10 is the last version of windows. It will probably just be released as a new build of Windows 10 as they usually do.
Just did a quick google search and found this: While Microsoft once claimed that it would never move to a Windows 11. Instead, Windows 10 would continue with a regular update schedule, with major updates twice a year. However, with the Windows 10X project now shelved, it seems plans are changing. I guess Microsoft is making a windows 11 then..
@@totallyapinetree Microsoft never really claimed that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows. One engineer that doesn’t even work at Microsoft anymore said that. The PC world took that and ran with it though.
Yea, really cool history, thanks for letting me know! As for this new generation, 10X got cancelled, as far as I know, it was looking really interesting! Windows 10 has started to become a little stale, I'm hoping for a real change up in looks to move away from the flat look, I'm getting a little... over it :P
FYI: Watercolor was not meant to replace classic. It was intented as a placeholder from the start, hence the red inactive titlebar, to test new visual style engine. Luna was the intended visual style from the start.
The watercolor theme was actually never intended to be released, it simply was a deterrent for people to look into the new theme that was being developed
I have to wonder if Philip missed a bit of info someone posted that mentioned that Watercolor was intended to just be a placeholder in order to reduce the risk of the "Windows XP style" (internally called "Luna") being copied by competitors, at least from what I heard, but the visual style stuck in the Windows XP Language Bar, some MMC panels (including Services), and Office XP, as far as I know, likely due to internal miscommunications.
@@EnigmaticLucas That's what it sounds like. Aphantasia is when you can't picture an image in your head. Some people have no trouble while others find it hard, all the way through to people who can't imagine anything at all without using a pen and paper (or a PC, as it may.)
watercolor is a placeholder style just like ple and slate from longhorn, the reason they were made is because if a build was to be leaked the theme wouldn't be leaked before the announcement
Where do you get all of these Operating systems? Do you like, download them as isos' or get a preinstalled os? I'm trying to be able to use every Windows OS ever, and you could really help me out here...
Try out winworldpc to download all the Windows OSes before WinXP. They even have some beta versions as well. You can even download other older operating systems as well if you need them. They saved my old Mac when I needed Mac OS 9 for my iMac G3!
