cagebreak
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cagebreak
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
There's also a Wayland WM directly inspired by ratpoison! https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak
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Actually functional compositors, and querying their protocol capabilities : mirroring screens
That's true for a lot of libraries, you have to maintain the code, I would treat that as a fact of life, It might be worth noting there are some projects designed to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots which might be different: cage -> used by cagebreak phoc -> used by phosh and wayfire -> used by swayfire.
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With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
cagebreak as far as i can tell is a one man project (it uses cage to provide a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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Writing a Wayland compositor is MUCH harder than it should be
I also remembered cagebreak (wayland window manager). it uses cage (which is defined as a "wayland kiosk" but might also be used as a high level abstraction over wlroots).
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EXWM and Wayland
Anyway, like you I also wanted to see how far I could go on Wayland. After trying out a number of wms I settled on cagebreak which is modeled on ratpoison. It's still in early development but worked well enough for me to give it a semi daily driver status. It works really well with emacs too, without the single-thread issue. I went for a pure Wayland experience (without XWayland as well), so I couldn't some apps I normally use - but I was able to create something quite close to my xorg setup.
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Wayland alternatives
There's cagebreak, wich is inspired by ratpoison. It's different yo hlwm, but it has the same concept of containers, but every container only have the "max" layout
- Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
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- BeOS Demo Video
- Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks for HPC and Desktop
- Saving Linux
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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste
You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_...
Besides Linux and BSD Unix there is: https://reactos.org/ https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
I know some third-world nations still use DOS and the BORLAND DOS compilers because people donate old computers to their nations.
With the right OS, old computers are still usable. Please don't throw them away, e-cycle them so they get used by poor nations that cannot afford new PCs.
- Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs
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Running BeOS 5 in QEMU (i386)
If interested, please take a look at its up-to-date evolution
https://www.haiku-os.org
I tested on real hardware too, and it worked well
- Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
Have you checked out Haiku? It's so delightfully early 2000s.
- Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots
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Geniuses Named this Obtrusive Malware Emulator
Bro you clearly haven't use HaikuOS before.
What are some alternatives?
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
zzzfm
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
awesome - A curated list of awesome projects
kiwmi - A fully programmable Wayland Compositor
Platform - Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform)
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
v2os - V2_OS - The V2_ Operating System. 100% 32 bit assembly code
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
kush-os - the kool useful system helper – a from-scratch hobby OS written in C++20