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> SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. More like a love letter to Windows 95 :) It doesn't really have much in com
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
> SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core.
More like a love letter to Windows 95 :) It doesn't really have much in common with the Unix GUIs available around that time, which were mostly Motif-based (think FVWM, CDE etc).
In fact it looks so Windows-like (including the applications) that my first impression was that this was another go at making something like ReactOS. But clearly it isn't.
It looks nice though I was never a big fan of the W95 UI. I'm interested to see what it's about. I'll give it a spin.
PS: Fair play for being so open about your addiction. It will help other people face the problem too.
- rzzzt 5y agoBut FVWM(95) is also a love letter to Windows 95, isn't it?
- vidarh 5y agoFVWM95 was, certainly. Plain FVWM was very much not - it had a very distinctive look of its own. E.g. [1] is more typical of FVWM. [1] http://linuxmafia.com/~n6tadam/fvwm/screenshot.png http://linuxmafia.com/~n6tadam/fvwm/screenshot.png
- rzzzt 5y agoAh, thank you for the screenshot. I didn't encounter any machines running classic FVWM.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYes but FVWM95 was just a minor fork with a Win 95 look. It's not the main look of FVWM.
- mythz 5y agoThe UI is inspired by 90s Windows OS’s whilst it’s POSIX OS, command-line utils and terminal is Unix-like, not its GUI.