• Sinclair-SpeccyOP
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    201 day ago

    @richardisaguy@lemmy.world It mainly competed against Windows 98 and Windows 2000 by Microsoft so I guess they were trying to jump on the hype with using a similar interface

    • @markstos@lemmy.world
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      121 day ago

      Correct. Not just hype but to make it “Like Windows, but free”.

      Even then it could be themed to a degree and some distros tried to look more like Windows than others.