Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened

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  • caja

    Caja, the file manager for the MATE desktop (by mate-desktop)

  • GNOME 2 was perfect. I use the spiritual sucessor MATE wherever it’s possible. It’s not perfect and arguably “boring” but there is really something to it https://mate-desktop.org/

    On a side note a similar project exist for KDE 3. Trinity Desktop https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

    And on a second mildly related side note: /r/linux had a thread about a modern (2009) OpenSuse spin with KDE 2 a few months ago. It was released as an april’s fools joke but the ISO file totally disappeared from the internet. Or at least the sub couldn’t find it (and the archive.org mirror is corrupted) https://blogs.kde.org/2009/04/01/new-kde-live-cd-release-bri...

  • Chicago95

    A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.

  • I still think Win95 is peak U, but it's what I grew up with, so that's probably expected.

    Minus some of the non-resizable windows, some newer UI elements that are clearly better, etc.

    I still run "it" via XFCE and Arch Linux: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

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