Chicago95
A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux. (by grassmunk)
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| 4,224 | 26,994 | |
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| 7.5 | 10.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| HTML | Clojure | |
| - | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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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.
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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
penpot
Posts with mentions or reviews of penpot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.
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Penpot 2.0 Released
Really neat. I was mainly curious to know when they are planning to release the self hosted docker versions of Penpot 2.0. Looks like its coming in the next couple days hopefully [1].
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What Design Tool Should I Use?
Website • Getting Started • User Guide • Tutorials & Info • Community • Twitter • Instagram • Mastodon • Youtube
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15 open-source tools to elevate your software design workflow
Link | Free Trial | Github | License
- Ask HN: How would you build Figma?
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Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
Penpot - Open Source Alternative to Figma
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CEO of Figma is a Zionist and supports the occupation of Palestine
- Penpot (open source) - penpot.app/
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Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works
A colleague had a quick presentation on Penpot[1] a few weeks back. Was a real contender I think.
[1]: https://penpot.app/
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Figma added OpenAI to a list of companies that can use some of its data
Now is as great a time as any to signal boost Penpot: https://penpot.app/
Open technology always wins, and it's only a matter of time until Adobe-Figma fades out of relevance.
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Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
I want to write only: https://penpot.app/
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Any self-hosted solution to showcase webdesign to client and get feedback?
I was thinking it might be overkill for most people. I forgot about it, but Penpot is also a good choice to self-host. https://penpot.app/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Chicago95 and penpot you can also consider the following projects:
Windows-XP - Windows XP themes
pencil - The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
xfce-winxp-tc - Windows XP stuff for XFCE
Tkinter-Designer - An easy and fast way to create a Python GUI 🐍
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
drawio-desktop - Official electron build of draw.io
aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Taiga - Agile project management platform. Built on top of Django and AngularJS
Chicagofier - An automatic Chicago95 script for Xubuntu
Akira - Native Linux App for UI and UX Design built in Vala and GTK