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Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

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Re: Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

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Post by pxeboot »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #71
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #66

This still is one of the best ux. This and Windows 2000. Straight to the point and fast.

By the way, what I find weird is NO Linux modification (DE/WM theme or whatever) marketed as a Windows XP (or Windows 98) clone ever actually looked close to the original - every single one looked a rough parody. I wish there were some really good... Even today the default Raspbian LXDE could look less ugly if they could make taskbar-based launcher and tray icons slightly smaller (kind of like in Windows 95-XP) rathe…

If you like the Win10 look, dash to panel [1] for Gnome can be almost indistinguishable if you change a few settings.

[1] https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel

Re: Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

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Post by soulofmischief »

dmix wrote: post #83

This loads super fast on a phone and is very responsive. Modern js done right can provide top tier interfaces. So many frontend let performance go by the way side when making interactive web apps. And performance can also be UX, how things appear and the flow of the loading. Things like placeholder boxes [1] with the same size so the load isn’t janky is one good hack. The sort of thing you don’t have to care about wi…

My goto test: Does it crash my virtual machine?

Some of the most basic websites trigger a serious (and still unresolved after years...) bug where the rendering stutters to a halt until virt-manager and all my VM windows crash. Just basic landing pages with weird animated backgrounds, etc. Nothing rich.

This app? It works almost flawlessly with little jank and doesn't even stress my browser. And it has a much richer UX!

Re: Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

#104

Post by toper-centage »

ChrisSD wrote: post #47
lostgame wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here to say this. As soon as it popped up, I was like; oh, shit, yup - there it is. WinAmp and it's fantastically on-point UI-mockup and functionality was also a super nice touch. tbh I still use Windows XP SP3 in my VM on my Mac for the occasional Windows utility I need. It's super no-cruft and lightweight - especially as a VM - compared to anything since - and is surprisingly compatible. Because it's in a VM,…

Wait are we seriously at the point where XP is now considered "super no-cruft and lightweight"? XP? How times have changed.

> How times have changed.

Windows has become a 20+GB OS with a mess of dumbed down UIs. So yes, XP was effective and light by today's standards. That's partially because your current mobile phones are more powerful than the PCs that used to run XP.

Re: Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

#106

Post by anticristi »

dmix wrote: post #83

This loads super fast on a phone and is very responsive. Modern js done right can provide top tier interfaces. So many frontend let performance go by the way side when making interactive web apps. And performance can also be UX, how things appear and the flow of the loading. Things like placeholder boxes [1] with the same size so the load isn’t janky is one good hack. The sort of thing you don’t have to care about wi…

I think moat websites are built using the following algorithm:

  while (!website_crashes) {
    add_more_tracking()
    add_more_adds()
  }

Re: Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

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Post by dmos62 »

dmix wrote: post #83

This loads super fast on a phone and is very responsive. Modern js done right can provide top tier interfaces. So many frontend let performance go by the way side when making interactive web apps. And performance can also be UX, how things appear and the flow of the loading. Things like placeholder boxes [1] with the same size so the load isn’t janky is one good hack. The sort of thing you don’t have to care about wi…

I think that a reimplementation of a ~15 year old UI running on current hardware smoothly is not particularly indicative of whether or not the implementation or the software stack is efficient. It running smoothly is indicative of it being well suited for the hardware/stack it's being tested on, but that's not a high bar, especially for a 2d UI.

Re: Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React

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Post by qubex »

Very pretty... but just about everything I wanted to try out (Control Panel to switch to the Classic interface, the Run command, Command Prompt) just gave generic “program not found” errors, which I understand, but which makes this little more than a tableaux—though indeed it is termed a ‘recreation’ and not an ‘emulation’, so maybe I was just hoping for too much.

Well done on the visuals, though. Very impressive.

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