Chicago95 VS Chicagofier

Compare Chicago95 vs Chicagofier and see what are their differences.

Chicago95

A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux. (by grassmunk)

Chicagofier

An automatic Chicago95 script for Xubuntu (by dominichayesferen)
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Chicago95 Chicagofier
151 3
4,199 75
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7.5 4.4
23 days ago over 2 years ago
HTML Shell
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Chicago95

Posts with mentions or reviews of Chicago95. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-03.

Chicagofier

Posts with mentions or reviews of Chicagofier. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-24.
  • My Linux Distro
    2 projects | /r/MrRobot | 24 Jan 2022
    It's Xubuntu, https://xubuntu.org/ with the Chicago95 theme https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 that I installed with Chicagofier https://github.com/dominichayesferen/Chicagofier which I then installed the Goldeneye Windows 95 Theme for with Plus95 (that comes with Chicagofier) https://archive.org/details/winfiles_bondtheme_202005 - I then edited my panel and added a seperator (transparent, expand) after the last launcher and before the Window Buttons. Finally I changed my wallpaper to this: https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp1810627.jpg
  • Got my T410 set up for my new job with MX Linux and loving it so far!
    2 projects | /r/thinkpad | 30 Oct 2021
    XCFE with Cicago95 (I used Chicagofier to make installation easier)

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