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I used to love experimenting with LiteStep and Winamp themes and browser themes when I was younger, but honestly user interfaces are Good Enough now that I'm relatively happy with the out-of-the-box experience. But it's still disappointing that a generation of potential computer nerds won't have the same experience of being able to treat their primary computer as a blank slate for personal expression.


I spent years making litestep themes and moderating theme submission on litestep.net I still have a mirror up of the old owns.com minimalism site as well.

http://dave.oc7.org/minimalism/themes.shtml

Some folks still run litestep, but it's definitely not the community it was. We still have a small chat presence on discord and that is about it.


I was the same way with Windowmaker themes. Now I use a fairly boring desktop with a dark theme, and I'm happy if GTK and Qt themes coexist nicely.

With that being said, a lot of themes were UGLY or clones of OS X or Windows.




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