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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 legrande »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #46

I wonder if someone will eventually make a desktop OS that is entirely web-based. No GTK or WinUI - everything is a web app. Except that the DE would also be, technically speaking, a web app itself that shows other web apps. Kind of like this, except imagine if the example apps ("File Explorer") were real web apps loading into the web app desktop environment. I think Firefox OS was the farthest that this got, but I t…

These (online browser based) desktop environments work best when you hit F11 and go fullscreen, stripping the browser chrome away.

Either the user does that, or we signal to the browser that this is a 'fullscreen only app and you must run it fullscreen' but that would be bad user experience, since most users would struggle to exit it.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by syx »

legrande wrote: post #60

There's a few of these knocking around the web: https://winxp.vercel.app/ https://windows96.net/ https://www.windows93.net/

I keep track of all these web desktops around the web here [1] if you’re interested in a even bigger list :)

[1] https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by tbassetto »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #46

I wonder if someone will eventually make a desktop OS that is entirely web-based. No GTK or WinUI - everything is a web app. Except that the DE would also be, technically speaking, a web app itself that shows other web apps. Kind of like this, except imagine if the example apps ("File Explorer") were real web apps loading into the web app desktop environment. I think Firefox OS was the farthest that this got, but I t…

That's what we did at Jolicloud a decade ago to make a better (different? beautiful? doomed?) OS for netbooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joli_OS

The OS booted ASAP to a fullscreen Chromium instance, until we added support for running Linux apps too later on. I didn't work on the windows management so can't say more about this technical side.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by [deleted] »

archerx wrote: post #37

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.

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Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by quirino »

syx wrote: post #62
legrande wrote: post #60

There's a few of these knocking around the web: https://winxp.vercel.app/ https://windows96.net/ https://www.windows93.net/

I keep track of all these web desktops around the web here [1] if you’re interested in a even bigger list :) [1] https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

Incredible website! Very functional for how experimental it is and full of neat surprises. Love that a screensaver comes on after it is inactive for a while.

(I found the pizza recipe btw)

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by syx »

quirino wrote: post #65
syx wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I keep track of all these web desktops around the web here [1] if you’re interested in a even bigger list :) [1] https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

Incredible website! Very functional for how experimental it is and full of neat surprises. Love that a screensaver comes on after it is inactive for a while. (I found the pizza recipe btw)

So glad you explored it all the way down!! You might find some more Easter eggs here and there ;)

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by DustinBrett »

syx wrote: post #62
legrande wrote: post #60

There's a few of these knocking around the web: https://winxp.vercel.app/ https://windows96.net/ https://www.windows93.net/

I keep track of all these web desktops around the web here [1] if you’re interested in a even bigger list :) [1] https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops

Thanks syx for the work you do! And that screensaver is awesome on your site, Hack the Planet!

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by DustinBrett »

NKosmatos wrote: post #8

Really nice and fluid interface, if you liked the animated background you can generate more from https://www.vantajs.com/

Thanks! Ya VantaJS has some really cool ones. I ended up doing some tweaks to this one to allow it to change colors and work with the latest Three.js.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by DustinBrett »

1MachineElf wrote: post #55

Dustin live-coded every week for a full year while working on this project. Here's the video playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM88opVjBuU7xSRoHhs3h...

Thanks for the shout out! Indeed it was a long year of weekly streams.
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