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HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by lproven »

jwells89 wrote: post #71
jeroen79 wrote: post #34

i don't know why people wan't to keep cloning osx, it might looks nice, but time has proven its a quite unproductive gui

The problem is that very few macOS clone projects reach anything close to maturity, which means that paradigm is barely represented in FOSS desktops. Aside from GNOME (which is iPadOS, not macOS) and its prettier cousin Pantheon, It's just Win9X clones and tiling WMs as far as the eye can see. That might not seem like a big deal, but if the goal is to get as many people switched away from commercial operating systems…

Ubuntu Unity did better than most in that department.

Still alive and being maintained, too.

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by skyyler »

egypturnash wrote: post #75
sleiben wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You‘re probably not the target group. It’s an open source project (in comparison to the MacOS walled garden) and I think that especially your 3rd question is disrespectful. In general your comment reads like a rant against the open source philosophy to me and is attacking/demotivating people who spend their spare time to create free software. Instead of attacking OSS creators one should give kudos and encourage them…

"helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac." I think I am kind of exactly the target group. Why is "why is half of the screenshot used as my first encounter with this system in a different language from the rest" a disrespectfu…

>Why would I want to switch to this?

Because you value free software. That's the only reason.

It's a very compelling reason for many people. If it's not compelling for you, that's ok.

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by jwells89 »

lproven wrote: post #81
jwells89 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that very few macOS clone projects reach anything close to maturity, which means that paradigm is barely represented in FOSS desktops. Aside from GNOME (which is iPadOS, not macOS) and its prettier cousin Pantheon, It's just Win9X clones and tiling WMs as far as the eye can see. That might not seem like a big deal, but if the goal is to get as many people switched away from commercial operating systems…

Ubuntu Unity did better than most in that department. Still alive and being maintained, too.

Unity's implementation of a global menu is probably the most consistently functional I've seen at the very least. KDE has this feature but compatibility is more spotty, partially thanks to necessary packages going unmaintained and on my main distro (Fedora) missing altogether.

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by inamberclad »

jnsie wrote: post #11

I wonder if, in the future, stable diffusion or other AI techniques can be used to generate nice icon sets and other UI elements. Not that I'd expect Apple levels of design, but anything to bridge the gap would be nice...I'm primarily a macOS user, secondarily a windows user, and my forays into *nix have always provided a poor first impression. Anecdotal, of course...

I feel like this is weak argument these days, places like reddit.com/r/unixporn are overkill when it comes to styling a desktop environment, but a quick change to the Numix icon set and a new GTK theme makes most Linux installations with Gnome look great.

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by Shared404 »

dgfitz wrote: post #66

> On GNU-style systems (e.g., most Linux distributions), status=progress does not work and can be left away. This isn’t really an accurate claim. How strange.

Yep. GNU dd definitely supports status=progress, at least in any modern version.

Maybe they're thinking of busybox dd?

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by spookie »

lproven wrote: post #9
trollied wrote: post #2

The UI reminds me of RISC OS!

Allegedly, one of the Acorn OS developers quit and went to work for NeXT in Silicon Valley... and right afterwards, the test in-development version of NeXTstep suddenly had this Acorn Risc OS-like floating icon bar! NeXT also implemented app directories, where all the contents of an app, its resources and libraries and so on, are in a folder with a special magic name... another idea nicked from Acorn. (Risc OS apps a…

Oh, interesting!

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by JediPig »

I love FreeBSD on personal servers and workstations. But lean into FreeBSD not into macOS look and feel. The m2 macs make it the best workstation out there. If you have that there is no business need for this os.

Run it for fun but it’s never going to reach mass appeal

Re: HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD

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Post by fao_ »

egypturnash wrote: post #76
jnsie wrote: post #11

I wonder if, in the future, stable diffusion or other AI techniques can be used to generate nice icon sets and other UI elements. Not that I'd expect Apple levels of design, but anything to bridge the gap would be nice...I'm primarily a macOS user, secondarily a windows user, and my forays into *nix have always provided a poor first impression. Anecdotal, of course...

"here is an open source operating system for creatives" First HN comment: "I wonder if we could use AI to replace the large-scale creative work of making sets icons."

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