Personally, I prefer Windows 93: http://www.windows93.net/
I see your windows 93 and raise you a https://windows96.net/
DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser
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#82The website even saves the state between visits. E.g. move an icon some where, close the page, and come back. Really impressed by that.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
"How many levels of virtualization are you on?" "Like, maybe 2 or 3 right now, my dude" "You are like a little baby, watch this..." opens 10 browsers inside browsers recursively and crashes hyper-v
The browser is a lie. There is no browser.
Future historians will note that this is the era in which the operating system (OS) was replaced by the browsing system (BS).
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#84This is an insanely nice Windows UI clone. Not only is the site nicely done, but I enjoyed reading the author's posts regarding their current life and future aspirations. The whole bundle of code + UI + content hits home. I hope the author becomes the senior software engineer they desire to be - they deserve it.
This gave me a good chuckle. Obviously titles mean different things at different places but my god my accomplishments as a "Senior Software Engineer" title pales in comparison to what Dustin has built here. Kudos to him and it inspires me to shoot for more.
I feel the same way. This is like a combination of art, philosophy, and software engineering. It's a whole ecosystem and possibly a new platform. Really interesting to think about this.
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#85I'm really thinking that's the feature. Compile Linux kernel to wasm. So it can run inside a browser with a very nice performance. Write FS drivers to enable seamless caching and remote data storage, so you can shutdown your system on PC and boot from laptop. Or even some kind of hibernate mode, so you can just continue from where you left off. Write graphics drivers using WebGPU and other technologies, enabling very…
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#86These things pop up here every once in a while. And they have existed since at least early 2000s, but I have never ever seen this kind of thing getting any more traction than "oh this looks cool", or seen or known anyone (software engineer or not) in real life that uses it. Not at all excited about this.
They are a nightmare from an UI and a security perspective. Your browser is today the main entry point for a remote exploit.
And although your monitor has pixels and a phyisical dimension, and sometimes, scalling, they are hidden from your browser apps ensuing a total mess.
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#87Oh how neat, the Messenger feature uses nostr (https://nostr.com) DMs!
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#88There is a huge collection of similar web desktops here. https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops Only windows93 and windows96 are any good though.
https://www.windows93.net/ https://v3.windows93.xyz/ https://windows96.net/
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#89These all just huge time waste, cpu energy waste, internet waste. Even I do find it's not compatabile to read the blog, author info.
What is the use like these works?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sandstorm really had this kind of feeling. Not that it presented as a desktop environment visually - but it offered a much more integrated “computer” of documents versus silod web site apps where you need to open each site to see the files in the app. https://sandstorm.io/ On the other side of things, you can just run an SSH + X11 server for remoting; and have fairly good integration between windows controlled by a r…
I'm a big fan of the idea behind Sandstorm. There's (theoretically) nothing standing in the way of making self-hosting of serverside apps as easy and painless as installing mobile apps, except someone has to do the infrastructure/integration work to make that UX come true. Docker got us 80% of the way there, but maintaining a complex setup can still be painful even for seasoned sysops (and we'd rather not take our wo…
You should check out YunoHost, it's like Sandstorm, better maintained and 90% there imo.