Absolutely love it when people who don't know the difference between OS, DE and a shell start writing "OS"s :D
Otherwise it is quite impressive given the circumstances.
AaronOS
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Re: AaronOS
#12Love the look. Would love if this was an installable OS :D
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#13How cool to see my project on here!
Been working on it for roundabout seven years.
If anyone's got questions, fire away!
Re: AaronOS
#14Looks nice, especially in the full screen mode. Not sure what this is for though. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Mostly fun and entertainment. Browsers are resource hogs, and they mostly used to run antiquated JavaScript. Creating a responsive, nice-looking "OS" desktop in a browser is something akin to code golf. It's a demonstration of skill at least.
This is my first intro into such a thing - pretty cool...now how do I hack the kernel? LOL
Re: AaronOS
#15Looks nice, especially in the full screen mode. Not sure what this is for though. Anyone care to enlighten me?
The other comment is pretty much right on. It's a playground of sorts for me. Platform for the rest of my projects.
Re: AaronOS
#16Absolutely love it when people who don't know the difference between OS, DE and a shell start writing "OS"s :D Otherwise it is quite impressive given the circumstances.
Haha, I experimented with a rebranding to aDE instead of aOS, but felt that it could get confused with actual Linux desktop environments.
As time passes the "System" part of "OS" is beginning to feel more valid, at the least. 3rd-party app support, interconnected systems, etc.
You're right though, certainly not an actual OS by any measure.
Re: AaronOS
#17Looks better & feels snappier than w11(which granted is a low bar).Not usually a fan of such web-based projects but this looks good, and it's not a full-on replica so points for originality aswell.
Thank you for the compliments!
Snappiness is definitely lent to the tiny scale of the project compared to Windows -- the entire thing is loaded to RAM! Though that's been changing in more recent updates.
Re: AaronOS
#18I love 'web-desktops' so made a comprehensive github repo listing 171 such webDesktops that people made. AaronOS is a part of it wit proper attribution to original creator. Please have a look here, you will love it : https://github.com/zriyans/awesome-OS
I love collections like these. So cool to see what different people have done with the concept.
Re: AaronOS
#19Love the look. Would love if this was an installable OS :D
I've experimented with running Chrome in Kiosk mode on system boot before, but it was never very convincing on the old systems I tested on.
Aside that, an Electron app has been experimented with, but only the Music Player has actually been released standalone.
Re: AaronOS
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mostly fun and entertainment. Browsers are resource hogs, and they mostly used to run antiquated JavaScript. Creating a responsive, nice-looking "OS" desktop in a browser is something akin to code golf. It's a demonstration of skill at least.
This is my first intro into such a thing - pretty cool...now how do I hack the kernel? LOL
It's open source -- feel free to clone from github and hack away!
Not quite sure that anything could be called a Kernel by any measure, but there's certainly a lot of stuff in there.
Oh, and I apologize in advance for your loss of brain cells. Some of that code is around seven years old.