Chicago95 VS oni2

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.

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Chicago was the code name for the development version of the highly anticipated Windows95

Haven’t tried it, but there’s https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Chicago95

Related: you can make Linux look like Windows 95 (98/2000/XP), icons and all: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

It works really well.

XFCE + https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Currently running Chicago95 on Linux! https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

The Chicago95 theme is the only reason why I use Xfce

Wine + Chicago95 will also get you most of the way there.

It was onivim2. Iirc it was a one-man show, and stopped when funding dried up. I also hoped to see a a lot from it. Maybe the dev took too much work on his plate, with an unproven language with limited libraries?

https://github.com/onivim/oni2

It's unfortunate that oni2 stopped development.

It had the promise of all the benefits of VS Code, but performance of a native app.

https://v2.onivim.io

Yeah, https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811

Onivim development has stopped, it is now abandonware: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811#issuecomment-9103...

I never tried CoffeeScript since nobody pays me for it, though I am curious about ReasonML as an alternative, there's a Neovim front-end[0] coded in Reason that compiles natively[1], and supports existing VS Code plugins from the VSCodium plugin repository[2] which I still have yet to look at how the heck they pulled that bit off, but it is pretty interesting.

[0]: https://github.com/onivim/oni2#introduction

[1]: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

[2]: https://open-vsx.org/

It’s too bad that Onivim2 development stopped.

https://v2.onivim.io/

It had the potential of being all the great things of both SpaceVim + VS Code combined into a native app.

You are not alone.

If there were a GUI editor that had 1st-class Vim keybindings, native LSP support, fuzzy finding, and convenient file management tools a la Ranger, I'd switch in a heartbeat.

OniVim2[0] looked really promising, but the project has unfortunately stalled after the creator had to step back for personal reasons.

[0]: https://v2.onivim.io/

How does it do in comparison to the other upcoming "better VSC"s? Like for example:

https://v2.onivim.io/

https://helix-editor.com/