Chicago95
A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux. (by grassmunk)
NsCDE
Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM (by NsCDE)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
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Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer
If that's a concern for you, there are themes for GTK3 and GTK4 that replicate classic 3D widgets and remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively developed, but B00merang gives you a GTK+4 theme that's currently missing from Chicago95.) Works reasonably well as a daily-driver, giving you a similar look to the modern SerenityOS GUI on a standard Linux system. Even the modern GTK+4 "responsive" apps work as designed, with some non-critical graphical quirks.
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Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
Chicago was the code name for the development version of the highly anticipated Windows95
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Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
Haven’t tried it, but there’s https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
- Windowsi kasutajad, kuidas tee nii vähese 🪟-sisaldusega hakkama saate?
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Ubuntu 90s theme
Might be looking for something closer to this: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
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OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition
I bloody want my Linux and apps on it to look like this or something of this flavour. Most retro themes are poor quality shams (Chicago95[1] is the only good one, yet still not perfect). I feel like I would gladly pay serious money for a really high quality conversion of all the parts, including themes for all widget libraries and no quirks.
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Looking for a specific 'subgenre' of digital minimalism - "Retro digital"?
Chicago95
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Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64
Related: you can make Linux look like Windows 95 (98/2000/XP), icons and all: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
It works really well.
- Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux
NsCDE
Posts with mentions or reviews of NsCDE.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
- Cool but Obscure X11 Apps
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Anyone else encountering this weird libX11 bug?
NsCDE freezes when deiconifying an icon on the desktop · Issue #113 · NsCDE/NsCDE – Closed
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Any DE/theme that looks like it came from 2005?
This one is maybe even older, but conforms to your description of what you are searching for. https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
- Not So Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 2.3
- Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 2.3 released
- WM/DE that *looks* old, but is still functional
- i put (it's hard to call it install ;) 13-2 Release on my old RPI 3B+, and it's a breeze!
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I feel like a newbie
Sounds perfect for debian stable. Aside from distro, this github might be interesting for you.
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Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator
Like NsCDE [1], these kinds of old school environments are nice an all until you fire up a modern browser or an app made for Gnome and you end up in a kind of aesthetic mess.
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Memory management do be like that
then NsCDE is the gigachad meme
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Chicago95 and NsCDE you can also consider the following projects:
Windows-XP - Windows XP themes
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
xfce-winxp-tc - Windows XP stuff for XFCE
ravynos - A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
ISO - helloSystem Live and installation ISO
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
darling - Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux
aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)
hello - Desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!
Chicagofier - An automatic Chicago95 script for Xubuntu
retrosmart-x11-cursors - An old-fashioned look X11 cursor theme