KDE's menus upon menus upon menus makes it look and work like W95 for me, just made of shiny plastic instead of something beige.
Also, I feel XFCE's default looked awful about ten years ago, it looks modern and slick now, esp. with a theme like Arc installed! And it's incredibly customisable and riceable!
Oh, well good Palestinians and Ukrainians (and afterwards likely many other Europeans) will be dying in the masses. You could've had problems faking a sick leave.