Comments on: How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu

By: Jake Skully

Jake Skully — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:29:22 +0000

For those that say, “JUST INSTALL UBUNTU”, well there is reasons why that is stupid to do.. I love the OS dearly, but it’s as useful as the MacOS.. I love being compatible to 90+% of the world. I love my games too and DirectX10/11.. I use Windows 7 64bit Ultimate edition.. NEVER ONCE had an issue, hell, I never had an issue with ANY Microsoft OS, including ME or Vista! Stop blaming the OS for idiots behind the computer. Yes, I agree, ME had it’s issues, but honestly never experienced them! Vista I honestly don’t see what the hype was about.. I used the 64bit version but always had 8 or 16GB of memory so being “memory hungry” wasn’t an issue… Anyway, I think this is nice, the look of Ubuntu with the compatibility of Windows.. 2 thumbs up!

By: Kryo969

Kryo969 — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:13:15 +0000

@Jai “Venko” Harrison.
See the thing is though is windows has largest compatabiltiy when hae ou ever seen a linux os with microsoft and beside using Wine (which is very buggy) it is th eonly way to have the look of Ubuntu with the functionality of Windows

By: Kaelan

Kaelan — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:47:11 +0000

How can i apply this without the patcher? I have one of the ‘digital education revolution’ laptops which i don’t have access rights to. It runs windows 7 enterprise and is very locked up. Is there a way to do this with standard user priveleges? Plz help

By: Sypran

Sypran — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:24:44 +0000

I agree with one comment before, this helped me get a friend to get used to ubuntu’s layout before I installed it. (I think of it as training wheels almost what an above comment said.) I remember my first ubuntu experience was confusing, I didnt know the terminology. or where to find anything.

Well anyways Now Im used to Ubuntu on my hard drive slot number 2, and going back to windows (to use some programs I need to use for classes) was awkward.

By: Tori Black

Tori Black — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:59:55 +0000

Howdy, great, this is hot stuff, hope to see more.Greetings

By: ubu

ubu — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:26:12 +0000

One of the reason I would like to have the interface from Ubuntu on my windows machine was because of its simplicity.

I really liked how ubuntu has everything organized. I do however, think that Windows is a lot easier to use for me. I’ve been using Windows for years and I prefer windows at the moment. I would switch to Ubuntu but I keep having issues that take too much work.

By: Adam H

Adam H — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:15:17 +0000

@yavir:

Way to open a can of worms. That’s a horrible analogy. Everything about them is different.

By: kenny k

kenny k — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:13:02 +0000

this is retarded, just download ubuntu

By: subditouno

subditouno — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:35 +0000

Simply wow.I’m always awesomed when commenting.

By: ale

ale — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:39:43 +0000

The link (window_to_ubuntu.rar) is corrupt.
there is another?

By: Safari

Safari — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:41:36 +0000

WTF THE THEME DOESNT WORK WITH VISTA SP1.I TRIED TO LOAD IT USING TUNE UP UTILITIES.it says its not compatible.whats the prob.is there a new theme for vista.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:07:28 +0000

Use this theme in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8105

The one listed in this article hasn’t been updated for newer versions of FF.

By: Prasad

Prasad — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:53:17 +0000

Thank you it worked.

By: Jeff F

Jeff F — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:33:35 +0000

I can’t get the logon page to do anything with LogonStudio…any suggestions?

By: pornstAr

pornstAr — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:44:14 +0000

Interesting indeed, I will try and see how much I can make it to work.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:18:41 +0000

Nice, Like to add for AWN -> Rocket Dock (Freeware Download.com has it) it is a nice OSX-esque dock for MSW (might be XP only - not sure don’t quote me on that) only problem is that MSW is horrible about windows management if it isn’t going to the panel.

hey I just look at it like having the best of both worlds no matter which machine I am using I have the bits of shiny I like and find it entertaining,.. I am a girl … and I like my shiny!!! my dad (who is doesn’t even understand why someone needs a GUI… I’m serious) can’t understand that necessity. I’m a geek, and I love the principal of Linux, GNU, and GPL but I do have some machines that hardware-wise just don’t run as smooth on Linux as MSW, and until hardware and software companies recognize Linux as an actual real life OS not just some toy in the hands of a bunch of old time computer geeks MSW will still have a strangle hold on the OS market, so why not have fun if you need to use MSW and why not rip off anything new and creative that they do do into Linux (they do have some nice bits of shiny). If you don’t get why - fine maybe its just not for you. but I for one like my pretty things so .

By: ph7

ph7 — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:22:14 +0000

Thanks, nice guide!

Why do I want to do that?
I’m a developer and I have to use Windows in VirtualBox for testing purposes.
I use VirtualBox in seamless mode and I’m happy that I have the Windows windows look just the same with the ones from gnome. That’s why.

By: yavir

yavir — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:22:42 +0000

SIYB +1

No need for holywars. It’s like Christianity and Islam. Different ways? Same things in deep. No matter which one you choose. You’ll die at last. No matter which OS you choose - it’s only the way to do your work.

By: SIYB

SIYB — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:11:45 +0000

Why would you wanna do that Oo? An operating system should be used because of its qualities and not its looks. As in RL, the inside is what matters, don’t be shallow . For eg: The sole purpose of Beryl is show off when confronting Windows or Mac users, that have the stereotypic believe that Linux DE are old fashioned and look like crap. The only feature that might actually enhance your productivity is the window grouping and tabbing feature, the rest is just damn annoying.

Red Oscar: If your “Linux friends” are Ubuntu users, I wouldn’t worry too much about their opinion on other operating systems *duck*. The point is that there is always someone that will criticise you for your choice OS choice (like I just did in my last sentence). I know windows users that know a hell of a lot more about their operating system and their computers entrails for that matter, then some Linux users. What I am trying to say is that you shouldn’t use an operating system because it’s “teh l337 fash1zzl” but because it suits your needs and capabilities.

I should also mention that this post is opinionated and subjective and might not reflect the opinion of others or the factual truth.

By: ughbuntu

ughbuntu — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:38:22 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks that Ubuntu out of box is the ugliest thing ever? The default themes, that horrible flesh color, the brown and orange color scheme are all repugnant to me. And I turn the eye-candy off because compiz is crash prone.