Any good shells? - Hardware & Software

I'm looking at custom shells but I can't really decide on which one I want, do people here have a "preferred" shell that I could try?

Can't go wrong with the [url=http://www.military.cz/usa/armour/ammunition/120mm/m829/apfsds.jpg ]M829 APFSDS.[/url] Honestly though, if this is for XP, I've used LiteStep and thought it was pretty good.

Cairo was going good until it died and became open source. SharpE was also pretty decent. Here's a small list of some: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_shell_replacement[/url]

Cairo died? When the hell?

[QUOTE=Blazehmr;20674116]Cairo died? When the hell?[/QUOTE] Last month. [editline]08:34PM[/editline] Jake from Element software has continued it: [url]http://jcxp.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=2630&hl=[/url]

Blackbox, more specifically bb4win. And bbLean.

I liked sharpe. Although it confused other people everytime they needed to use my pc.

bb4win

I remember back then when I was trying different shells! Litestep is a pretty good option. Also, you have [url=http://www.astonshell.com/]Aston Shell[/url]... [img]http://www.astonshell.com/aston2/pic/aston21.jpg[/img] And [url=http://www.lighttek.com/talisman.htm]Talisman[/url]... [img]http://www.lighttek.com/images/t350.jpg[/img] They're both pretty good! Try them out if you can :wink:

That first one is so bloated I won't even consider considering it.

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;20798386][url=http://www.astonshell.com/]Aston Shell[/url]... [img]http://www.astonshell.com/aston2/pic/aston21.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] How can you stand looking at that? It's just far too much (imo, anyway).

[QUOTE=Ibutsu;20798687]How can you stand looking at that? It's just far too much (imo, anyway).[/QUOTE] That's one of the many, many Aston skins you can find :P [editline]01:23PM[/editline] BTW, _Any_ shell you use can be as bloated as you want :v:

[QUOTE=Panda X;20672055]Cairo was going good until it died and became open source.[/QUOTE] Don't get me wrong, I was always willing to give the CairoShell developers the benefit of the doubt when countless others called it vaporware; I had been eagerly anticipating the thing since at least 2007. The concepts and UI were slick, but after so many years, the 1.9 alpha they released was pretty poor. I know they had setbacks and whatnot, but still, it was disappointing. So I wouldn't say Cairo was 'going good'. It was certainly had its potential. Since Cairo went open source, there have been a lot of frequent updates by Element Software. I have my doubts about Elemental Software, but the fact remains their branch of the CairoShell has released more updates in the past few months than the original developers did in the past few years. I'm just hoping they have the technical proficiency to deliver the original vision.

Cairo looked great at first, it was basically just Aqua for Windows.

I used bblean a while back when I had XP. I liked it, but it was too hard to explain to visitors, so I just switched back.

I really enjoyed using SharpE as well.

I think C99 is a good shell