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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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syx wrote: post #90
DustinBrett wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Thank you Dustin and congrats for your new release, definitely worth all the effort you put into it!!

Thanks! It's a total rewrite from scratch over a year and I really wanted to improve every aspect of what I had done the first time with v1. I still have a long way to go but my aspiration one day is to have near feature parity, within the confines of what can be done in a browser. Maybe in a decade or so I can redo it again when browsers support more stuff.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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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

Just wanted to comment again to say I have actually gone through every single link on this site as I was building mine. I am obssessed with this kind of project and loved seeing what others did and using it as inspiration.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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hutzlibu wrote: post #38
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 doin…

It should not be slow, sorry to hear about that. Maybe you could try it locally, indeed that is the code. I would love to hear more about "I do not like the windows clone style of this one too much" as I have tried to replicate Windows 10 and would like to know where I could improve. Thanks!

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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ocdtrekkie wrote: post #35
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 bro…

Ya novelty is all over my site. For me specifically the idea was always to replace my personal site and for users to feel like they had sat at my computer and were looking through my stuff/files. I use Windows 10, so that is what I decided to replicate visually.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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talhah wrote: post #36
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.

Glad to hear it's running well. Thanks for checking out my site!

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Daegalus wrote: post #101

wow, I was not expecting it to run buttery smooth on my phone of all things. it's a Pixel 6 Pro, so not old, but most JS apps work for shit regardless, this thing runs better than most native apps on my phone, amazing work. I hope you keep building and improving on this. I personally have a distaste for JS and would love to use this if it some day became a full desktop solution.

Thanks! I do intend to keep improving and I have a huge list of to do's for 2022 and beyond. I am glad to hear it ran well for you and you liked it.

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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rstat1 wrote: post #97
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.

Yea I was also noticing a lot of "Working on it..." showing up, and I'm using a modern machine with an 11th Gen Core i7. I'm thinking most of the issue might be the wallpaper. Its cool and all, but its a huge CPU drain.

Thanks for the feedback. There is some performance work to be done if you are seeing "Working on it..." for File Explorer, so that could be possible for larger folders. As for apps saying that, some of them require large library files to download first so depending on internet it could be downloading 1-10MB+ if you open something bigger. I am using CloudFlare CDN but it also could be possible if you are in an area where it's not cached that it gets it from my web server at StableHost which is slow.

Thanks for checking it out anyway! I hope one day you can try it with a smoother experience because when it works, it can do a lot, although it's a lot of just messing around. :-)

Re: DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

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Post by DustinBrett »

archerx wrote: post #45
mushufasa wrote: post #42

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To be fair, that is a 12 year old processor, so many modern websites are probably hard

You would be surprised, most sites work well actually. OPs site is probably one of the slowest sites I've visited with this laptop.

I would hope that is because of the wallpaper or CDN misses, because in general I hadn't had such issues. Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps you could try setting an image as the wallpaper to stop the animated one which can be a hog.
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