Thread 105962305

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>>105962305 (OP)
xfce did it better

>>105962333
also from this era were the AIM/AOL progz. The GUI of some those were fucking art.

>>105962305 (OP)
>Built-in scanlines.

>>105962305 (OP)
Looks like shit.

>>105962318
Why do streaming apps limit the descriptions to half a tweet?

>>105962320
not as functional.

When my friend got this, I never fully grasped what it was. It had "operating system" in the name, and I knew what an OS was versus an application. But GEOS always seemed to me more like an office suite. I know he used Geowrite and the paint program. But it's not like we ever used it to launch games.

>>105964758
GEOS was just a windowing layer on top of the OS
there was/is one for DOS as well, basically a competitor to Win3.0 (although I'm unsure of the time frame - probably too little too late). limited to 16-bit real mode apps AFAIK

the original DOS AOL client shipped with it. probably one of the few widely-used 3rd party apps to use it - only one I ever personally saw, anyway

>>105965251
This is how I made it, this right here.

>>105962305 (OP)
This is literally current day

>>105965442
I had a thread a while back where I said UIs like this on a semi-modern, but not fully modern stack (picrel was on Wayland), that could be efficiently run on $10-20 platforms was key to non-ngmi outcomes but I got holocausted by a jannie.

>>105962305 (OP)
you wouldn't believe how much I want this back
why is nuwindows LESS configurable than what we had in 3.11?

>>105967270
Because they hate not using slave labor

Late y2k Linux GUIs were peak kino

>>105962320
If you're retarded, yeah.

>>105962399
Need

>>105962305 (OP)
>Old school

>>105965306
Development ceased in 1986 and re-started in 2017-2022. 3 major releases since 2022.
Last major update in July 2024.
The A2Desktop guys are doing good work!

>>105970429
Thinking about how unix workstaions used to have first class software support makes me realize that the year of the *nix desktop already has passed us by.

>>105967805
vgh...

>>105970740
its was over ever since sun fell behind
>JAMJA

bump

>>105962305 (OP)
just so beautiful.

minimalist dwm can't compete.
I'm going to have to make a chunky dwm with actual sovl.

>>105970437
uhh this look like how I'd imagine elegant woman with over bite who decorates her house on Neverwinter Nights and is very tall would have as her desktop and I love her so much...

>>105970469
>setiathome