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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 lostgame »

Wezl wrote: post #46
airstrike wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

Which is used in https://98.js.org/ . (submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955925 )

Needs anti-aliasing disabled on the text - really ruins the otherwise awesome effect and otherwise excellent effort.

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

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Post by ricksharp »

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…

Yeah, this is amazing. Works great even on iPhone.

Going to save this one for the next time someone says React is slow.

This worked instantly for me (just like my website, I wonder if they are using Gatsby or something else for static pre-rendering).

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

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Post by arminiusreturns »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #77
Cloudef wrote: post #76

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There's IceWM that in my opinion does the "windows like" experience best. For some reason it's not very well known however.

How do you connect to a WiFi network with a non-DE WM? I once thought about abandoning the DEs world for a WM - I don't use any of the DE-standard apps anyway. I didn't even use the taskbar those days - I used a 3-rd party dock instead. Then somebody told me a DE isn't just about their own [webkit-based] browser, editor, media player etc - it's about many essential conveniences you take for granted and don't even thi…

Just remember that wicd/network manager are basically using wpa-supplicant as the backend, so either use applets for those, or script wpa supplicant or iwd (Intels more recent replacement for wpa supplicant). I finally turned mine into systemd services.
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