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KB's Fictional OS Mockups - Episode 1 Preface & Descriptions

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  1. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2uswPRrYY4
  2. VidLii: https://www.vidlii.com/watch?v=Vr9gpoDb5gb
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  6. Well, I have been doing YouTube Poop for a while, originally here on my main channel, and I later moved to a separate channel. Now, the time has come to delve into a new YouTube subculture, known as "Windows Never Released"!
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  8. Later, I decided to cover the wider subculture of "Never Released Operating Systems" (NROS), which led me to name my series to "KB's Fictional Operating System Mockups".
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  10. For those of you unfamiliar with the "Windows Never Released" subculture, it's one where users pretty much create fan-fiction AUs (alternate ueniverses), but of Microsoft, basically create Windows startup and shutdown sound compilations, but of nonexistent and fictional Windows versions, as opposed to using real ones.
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  12. Now, I know some users would leave requests on WNR videos, so if you want to leave me requests, please do know that I'm not capable of doing distant future WNR items. However, with the ones that I'm able to do, I do them slightly more realistic than other WNR creators I know of.
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  14. It's up to whichever WNR creator as to how realistic they want their WNR series to be, and I want to make mine a bit more realistic than what I've seen. As for 9x based WNR items, I'm not like a number of other WNR creators who would put their items in the video as 640x400 (one of the documents in Fean's WNR kit suggest doing it like that)
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  18. Explanations: (duplicated here because it won't fit in the VidLii description)
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  20. Windows Mint - Beta 1
  21. 0:14
  22. - For this, I imagined what would happen if there was Linux Mint, but using the Windows NT kernel instead of the Linux kernel.
  23. - Sounds are the Linux Mint startup and shutdown sounds which I ripped from a real LM installation myself, but are also available as part of Fean's WNR kit (which I used to help myself for some of what you see here)
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  25. Windows 10 Reader
  26. 0:23
  27. - Basically Windows 10 for e-book readers. It would be designed mainly for reading books, comics, magazines, etc but would also be able to run Universal Windows Platform programs.
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  29. DiscordOS
  30. 0:26
  31. - idea by mrdavidatify
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  33. KDE Linux 1.1
  34. 0:28
  35. - I basically imagined, "What if KDE Neon had been released at the same time as KDE 1.0?"
  36. - This also takes place on an alternate timeline where KDE Neon would have been a derivative of Red Hat Linux (and later, Fedora), rather than Ubuntu LTS, which wouldn't have existed so far into the past.
  37. - The desktop would be completely stock KDE 1.1 (or in other words, no distro branding and customisations), going as far as to open "The KDE Setup Wizard" on first logon (which, in real life, on KDE 1.1, had only been seen in Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.x)
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  39. Microsoft Windows BLACKOUT - Beta 1
  40. 0:41
  41. - A recreation based on a screenshot I saw online in around 2003-2005, and I was very much a kid back then, so couldn't remember what site it was, but I know it also had screenshots of MSC Longhorn Build 4074.
  42. - Startup sound is the Windows 95 Plus/Windows 98 "Mystery" theme startup
  43. - Alternate startup sound is the regular Windows 95 startup sound
  44. - Shutdown sound is from the end of the Goosebumps TV show theme song. Thanks to YouTube user "GuySwagger" for correcting me! (via Discord direct messages)
  45. -- Original text prior to correction: (Shutdown sound is ripped from the end of the Chadtronic Halloween 2016 special here on YouTube. I believe that was from some kind of royalty-free song, but I don't know the name of it, the artist name, or where it originally came from.)
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  47. Windows Media Display Client
  48. 0:58
  49. - I imagine this as being part of a software package called "Windows Media Display", which I imagine as being Microsoft's digital signage solution. "Windows Media Display Client" would run off of a stripped down version of Windows 2000 Professional and be installed on embedded PCs built into set top boxes (with optional remote controls) that would be hidden away, and connected to a display using VGA, composite, S-Video, or RGB SCART.
  50. - I imagine part of a news story for this being "Microsoft has leveraged their Windows Media technology to create a new multimedia digital signage solution that can not only display image slides, but videos with audio, as well"
  51. - Startup and shutdown sounds would be identical to that of Windows 2000 and ME.
  52. - For the server portion, that would be available as a separate program (for Windows 2000), or as its own OS (the startup screen would just be the regular "Windows 2000 Server Family" startup screen)
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  54. Windows 95 Blue
  55. 1:09
  56. - Based on a background posted by user "rsod il virus dei computer" in the WNR channel on the WNR Discord server. I can post the original background if you want it.
  57. - Sounds are created by me. Startup sound is the Windows 7 "Afternoon" soundpack logon sound crossed with the default Windows 95 startup sound, and the shutdown sound is a pitched version of the Windows 3.1 and 95 "tada" sound.
  58. - I imagine this to be a "streamlined" version of Windows 95, where certain features such as MSN Internet Access are not included in the "Typical" installation, but can be added later if the user wishes to do so. I was too lazy to edit out the Internet Explorer 5 icon, so I just imagine that desktop screenshot to be of an installation done at a later date.
  59. - In addition to that, there would be some improvements to the underlying MS-DOS kernel and certain system files.
  60. - Windows 95 Blue would also include some Plus 95 components by default, such as the high colour desktop icons. However, not all Plus 95 components would be included by default, such as the themes, which can also be installed later if the user wants them.
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  62. Windows CS Professional
  63. 1:22
  64. - Based on the joke in this cs188creations video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDnLRH3i0YI?t=11s
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  66. Windows 95 B and 98 SE (Indonesian localisation)
  67. 1:27 and 1:36 respectively
  68. - In real life, Microsoft only released an Indonesian localisation of Windows halfway into the Windows XP era.
  69. - based on ideas by Torazer, some localisation help by FMecha on Aero Community. Edited from a GUIdebook screenshot, and the status icons in the bottom right were taken from a screenshot of my real Windows 95 system since the GUIdebook screenshot appeared to have been of a VM with no sound drivers.
  70. - Splash screens and sounds would be identical to that of regular Windows 95 B and 98 SE respectively.
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