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@[email protected] 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
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  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.

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