Customizing linux/fun with retro, what windows 9x might have been like if it was linux based

Because I needed to get myself back into the coding and getting stuff done routine.
So I decided i'd do a little D I Y project for myself because plasma 6 just wasn't doing the trick and just wasn't performing as well as I would have liked.
Instead of going my original course of making my own desktop environment from scratch, I decided to modify my mate installation since it could already be optimised for best performance.
I stript out the top panel leaving the task bar at the bottom.
Then I threw together my own scrappy little windows 9x start menu, where you'll notice that the programs that do have extra options normally accessible by right clicking have their own submenu.
I made a couple changes to the concept, both to differentiate it from the original and to fit my own personal taysts.
For instance, their is no logoff option, not needed in my case, and because I never understood why windows 9x had the feature when it was more or less completely useless.
And the shut down option is now a power menu containing different modes to run in.
Mainly because I was too lazy to properly code a dialog for it, and since I didn't feel like modifying caja to provide alt f4 functionality to access it, it made more sence being a submenu in the start menu instead.
Obviously the DOS mode is dosbox-x with no overhead of the desktop environment running in the background (I didn't feel like diagnosing why dosemu2 didn't want to play duke nukem properly), the shell mode is exactly what it sounds like, and the other modes are essentially various versions of windows for older software.
Think of it as compatibility mode if it worked properly instead of might work on your program.
I haven't gotten around to the start menu being able to display windows programs through wine, that's next on my todo list once I hook all the modes up.
I also modifyed a few keyboard shortcuts to be more like windows, and disabled the compositer for alt tabbing because it was having a noticeable impact on speed.