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Windows 11 in Svelte

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Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by sgt »

DustinBrett wrote: post #203
sgt wrote: post #134

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Synology's web desktop is really slick. Is there an open source web desktop environment that comes close? I've seen os.js etc but that looks a bit dated now. The React ones for Win11 are a bit immature still.

I'd like to think my project daedalOS comes close and is fully functional as far as desktop environments in the browser go. Feel free to check it out. https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

Most impressive one I've seen so far. It even works on mobile which is unheard of for most web based desktop environments.

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by askiiart »

Jochim wrote: post #207
askiiart wrote: post #206

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> If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. Yet Microsoft seems to have no concerns about changing out functional, fast, easy to use components for worse replacements.

I wasn't speaking to the quality of their decision making. A lot of their new UI fails to satisfy anything but the simplest of use cases but I'm sure it took a very long time and lots of meetings for it to get approved and deployed. The Frankenstein period of old/new settings UI coexisting is further evidence of how painful ripping out OS functionality can be. I doubt anyone wanted to keep those dialogs around.

Ah, I see your point. Thank you for the clarification :)

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by NavinF »

labster wrote: post #111
NavinF wrote: post #46

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Somehow it feels like there's more to this story

I also tried to install WSL that day, but that’s just a package with no customization. Seems unlikely.

Right. I guess your SSD has zero checksum errors and your RAM passes memtest for a couple of days too.

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by himujjal »

vermilingua wrote: post #97
deweywsu wrote: post #83

I'm going to sound old here, but why use Svelte? Why yet another one? Why not an established framework like React or Vue? I realize Svelte is compiled but it's oh so close to the others, and its performance is only better in certain corner cases. I ask because of learning exhaustion with the plethora of lookalike languages and frameworks and the constant, unending learning curve associated with all front end developm…

I'm going to sound annoying here, but have you actually used Svelte? The developer experience is night and day with Svelte(kit) and React/Vue. I can have a workable prototype within a couple of hours with Sveltekit, where it would've taken me a couple of days in React/Next.js. Svelte feels like an answer to that unending churn of web frameworks because so much of it is just plain HTML and JS, compared to learning the…

> The developer experience is night and day with Svelte(kit)

Svelte has a cool DX. Best I have seen. SvelteKit not so much.

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Post by aquaductape »

jmull wrote: post #181
deweywsu wrote: post #83

I'm going to sound old here, but why use Svelte? Why yet another one? Why not an established framework like React or Vue? I realize Svelte is compiled but it's oh so close to the others, and its performance is only better in certain corner cases. I ask because of learning exhaustion with the plethora of lookalike languages and frameworks and the constant, unending learning curve associated with all front end developm…

IMO, the profession of software development should be embarrassed something like react has any traction at all. Surely it's worth trying to do something better than that?

SolidJS is pretty fun, has JSX, global stores, but with better runtime performance than Svelte

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by philistine »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #200
dmonitor wrote: post #199

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Random mysterious keybinds that nobody asked for

> Random mysterious keybinds And who gets to be the judge of which keybinds are "random and mysterious"? Every single OS has it's own different keybinds you need to learn if you want to be eficient with. MacOS has different. KDE has different. Gnome has different. Windows has different. It's not their fault you don't know them or haven't bothered to look into them for the OS you daily drive at home or at work and rem…

I know the keybind to switch languages. I'm ok with it. I'm genuinely asking why Windows is adamant that I must have more keyboard language options than the two very specific ones I want.

Re: Windows 11 in Svelte

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Post by ric2b »

anxion wrote: post #82
oaiey wrote: post #61

There is something with this idea: recreate a desktop environment in the browser. I have done it in the late 90s (obviously in PHP), and until today they show up regularly. Once MacOS, once windows, in svelte, in react, whatever. I thought it/I was brilliant then but nowadays I cannot even grasp the idea on why I did that. Never seen any in production for anything, and the only remnants like movable panels of propert…

Synology's Disk Station Manager recreates a desktop environment. https://demo.synology.com/en-us/dsm

QNAP does the same, also works pretty well.
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