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Congrats on making it on HN with puter.com. Always love to see desktop environments getting attention. It looks better all the time.
I'll take a chance to mention my attempt at creating a desktop environment in the browser if anyone is interested in checking out it's open source.
Code: https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
These types of systems are interesting, but I wonder if there's any use case where you would prefer them over the one you're browsing from.
FriendOS is arguably also the most advanced and complete of these systems: https://friendos.com/
I wrote my own OS in a browser based upon network shared file systems via a privacy model but I haven’t figured out kind of a business model for it.
https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
I am trying to think of where to take it next. Possibly integrate something like VLC for media playback or allowing users to install applications. I don’t really know what users would want from something like this.
