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DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by snowl »

endofreach wrote: post #24
deepstack wrote: post #17

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…

Because it's amazing to develop in and if you are good at development it's not hard to make performant applications. Don't blame the framework for a lack of skill

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by dutchmartin »

maushu wrote: post #26
creativenolo wrote: post #21

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.

Well, you can run their os on your hardware or in a virtual machine using https://xpenology.org/

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

mysterydip wrote: post #18

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?

I suspect novelty is indeed the primary purpose here. I view platforms like Sandstorm.io as a web operating system, since you install apps and manage files that use those apps contained within a web UI, but there's no real reason to emulate the look of a desktop OS, especially consider how much you have to fight with the browser to make that happen.

Most of the conventions of window-based desktop UIs inside a web browser is silly because it is, itself, a window. You are likely better off using multiple browser tabs than a fake windowed UI inside a single browser tab.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by talhah »

deepstack wrote: post #17

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?

Running perfectly on my OnePlus 8, another user indicated that it also runs fine on the OnePlus 6.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by archerx »

On my test computer which is an i7 m620 and no GPU it is very slow and takes the CPU to 100% on all cores while idle. opening a window will just get stuck at "working on it". While it looks nice this has probably been the slowest and least efficient web desktop I have opened on this computer and I have looked at a lot because I am building my own.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by hutzlibu »

mysterydip wrote: post #18

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?

As someone who has to regulary switch OS for various reasons: I would love to have the same file explorer/desktop environment, that works everyway in the same way. I hate the windows file manager. I even more hate the chromeOS file manager, Mac has been too long to remember - but if I use a new system and just want to look at some files and do basic stuff - I do not want to have to figure out the various ways of doing things. I just want to do them, the way I am used to it.

So the general idea is good, but I do not like the windows clone style of this one too much, also it is very slow. But that might be different, if locally installed.

Btw. it took me some time, to find the github link

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by boomskats »

maushu wrote: post #26
creativenolo wrote: post #21

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.

DSM may not still be, but last time I looked it was built using Sencha ExtJS.

I'm not sure when the buyout happened, but a few years ago Sencha became the shadiest, nastiest organisation I've ever dealt with. I'm keen to see what Synology do / have done to displace it.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by FpUser »

xattt wrote: post #11
ModernMech wrote: post #5

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.

I feel that direct mimicry of UIs and designs is a shibboleth of someone just starting out and starting to getting a good handle on tools. Another is enthusiasm to share your own work with the world. Neither is bad, but just something to be aware of. I saw this in my own early work before I reached an equilibrium of spontaneous original designs.

>"I feel that direct mimicry of UIs and designs"

Unless the unique design is the goal on its own why waste time?

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