Wow. Could be an interesting game. Could also be an interesting learning tool. It's a shame that it probably wouldn't be ported to Linux though.
“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
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#12Next create a mock OS inside that.
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#13Wow. Could be an interesting game. Could also be an interesting learning tool. It's a shame that it probably wouldn't be ported to Linux though.
It could trivially be built for Linux if the author decided to (or released the code). But it's also more of a tech demo than a real utility; there's no indication it runs any existing GUI applications.
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#14Looks like a generic Linux distro. Am I the only one getting "visual fatigue" over seeing flat design? I just feel like we need a trend change. Its been way too long. I find myself looking at the old Windows Vista, Windows XP, early Mac OS X, or even Windows 3.1 designs and longing for that simplicity.
agreed
"material ui" is cancer
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like you missed the point of the post. It’s less about the aesthetics and more about the fact that someone used Unity, a game development tool, to simulate and OS UI.
Thanks for that, I was trying to figure out what "Unity" was in this context, given that Ubuntu had something with the same name as it's main UI for about 7 years...
Interestingly enough, Unity the game engine has been around for 5 years longer than Unity the DE
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#16reddit's modern userbase is really interesting. There are some incredibly interesting people who use it, but you also find a bunch of accounts that are under a year old with lines like this:
Please don't. I would like to see you get rewarded for your hard work. Screw the parasites.
Their new UI seems to be doing its job, but I wonder if the decline in thread quality was worth it.
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#17Looks really cool! Unfortunately it looks like there is only a Windows version available to play around with. If this could run on Linux and have support for running arbitrary x11 apps then it would be very interesting! I don't have a lot of personal knowledge about Unity3d, but I do hope the creator puts this up on github or something. I'd love to take a closer look.
It's probably not hard to get it running on Linux but it's not a shell. It's just a toy with built in 'apps.'. Running arbitrary apps rendered to a texture in this app and forwarding user input back to apps is probably out of scope.
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#18I bet it runs smoother and uses less resources than anything written in Electron...
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#19Am I the only one who hates most animation? If the animation doesn't serve a clear purpose in signalling something to the user, I want it gone. I'm not convinced that we've seen any meaningful advance in OS UI design since Windows 95.
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#20reddit's modern userbase is really interesting. There are some incredibly interesting people who use it, but you also find a bunch of accounts that are under a year old with lines like this: Please don't. I would like to see you get rewarded for your hard work. Screw the parasites. Their new UI seems to be doing its job, but I wonder if the decline in thread quality was worth it.
That kind of drive-by low-content posting is the inevitable result of lax and/overwhelmed moderation combined with a massive userbase and ultra-ephemeral posting. It's possible to suppress it, but it takes either a community small enough to have some organic buy-in of posting standards (see HN, for example), aggressive moderation, or both.