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This is a very cool art project. Is there a practical daily driver Linux that has this feel and vibe? Can I do this cleanly with GNOME/Debian or XFCE/Manjaro,

• thawkth 1y ago
  The closest I know of is Blue95. I have only run the live environment but it worked pretty well and was impressive. "Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing. Based on Fedora Atomic Xfce with the Chicago95 theme." https://github.com/winblues/blue95 https://github.com/winblues/blue95 Depending on your chosen desktop and era, there are also things like TDE (trinity desktop environment) a fork (or spiritual successor) of the KDE 3.x environment: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/media/screenshots/large/tde3.png https://www.trinitydesktop.org/media/screenshots/large/tde3.... And if you like Gnome 2.x, there's MATE: https://mate-desktop.org/ https://mate-desktop.org/
• zozbot234 1y ago
  https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 and https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 get quite close if you use them together. The B00merang one has presets for the GNOME/Cinnamon/MATE desktop and a GTK+4 theme (which adds terrible padding compared to the usual GTK+3 one, but at least it has visible and properly 3d-shaded widgets).
• thesuitonym 1y ago
  Most window managers will have a theme that looks like the old 90s. They're commonly named things like "Chicago," or "Redmond."
• astro1138 1y ago
  fvwm95, or newer: https://github.com/jcs/progman https://github.com/jcs/progman I'd love a similar compositor for Wayland.