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DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#21

I've always loved "desktop websites", but beyond novelty I haven't found a real use case. Maybe something like a thin client or "work anywhere" for a business?

Synology DSM is a well executed example of a good "desktop website" use case. https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#22

Super cool, although I would not use the Windows logo for the "Start" menu. Definitely change that and call it something else! I'd imagine Microsoft jealously defends that sort of thing.

If you look around the filesystem and find the author’s résumé in the Documents folder, you’ll find out he works for Microsoft. So I’d guess Microsoft doesn’t mind as much.

Oh good, that's a relief!

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#23

Appreciated what has being put into this effort. Quite slow on macbook pro with 16gb of ram. This makes me question the usability of React. Wouldn't something like this better written in something more lightweight such as Mithril or SolidJS, Vue, etc?

Thy would have the same problems past x amount of components

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#24

Appreciated what has being put into this effort. Quite slow on macbook pro with 16gb of ram. This makes me question the usability of React. Wouldn't something like this better written in something more lightweight such as Mithril or SolidJS, Vue, etc?

This is my usual experience with react. Also i am just not liking the code… I really don‘t understand why it became so popular except for Facebook marketing it so much hence people bought into the hype. And now it has the big ecosystem, which is one of the main arguments to use react for many people…

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#25

Great project! By launching Doom and Blog Posts simultaneously, I caused some kind of deadlock on Firefox 96.0b10 (64-bit) Developer Edition on Windows 10.

I just opened it in a new tab, and it crashed my computer (Firefox 95.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu).

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#26

I've always loved "desktop websites", but beyond novelty I haven't found a real use case. Maybe something like a thin client or "work anywhere" for a business?

Synology DSM is a well executed example of a good "desktop website" use case. https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm

Would love a open source version of this for custom hardware. Sometimes I don't feel like using a shell for my local servers.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#27

Appreciated what has being put into this effort. Quite slow on macbook pro with 16gb of ram. This makes me question the usability of React. Wouldn't something like this better written in something more lightweight such as Mithril or SolidJS, Vue, etc?

I have the same laptop and it runs pretty smooth on Chrome.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#28

Appreciated what has being put into this effort. Quite slow on macbook pro with 16gb of ram. This makes me question the usability of React. Wouldn't something like this better written in something more lightweight such as Mithril or SolidJS, Vue, etc?

Quite interesting since on my mobile (OnePlus 6 with Chrome) seems kind of performant.

Edit: I wonder if its some kind of functionality causing the slow down? Perhaps Safari doing something stupid? Have you tried Chrome or another browser?

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Synology DSM is a well executed example of a good "desktop website" use case. https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm

Would love a open source version of this for custom hardware. Sometimes I don't feel like using a shell for my local servers.

webmin is the closest thing I've found in the past, but would love to hear of newer options

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

#30

I've always loved "desktop websites", but beyond novelty I haven't found a real use case. Maybe something like a thin client or "work anywhere" for a business?

Yes, there are use cases, I too loved 'web-desktops' so made a comprehensive github repo listing 171 such webDesktops that people made. Please have a look here, you will love it : https://github.com/zriyans/awesome-OS
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