Windows-95 Alternatives

Windows-95 reviews and mentions

• Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024

  You can supplement Chicago95 with an experimental GTK4 theme from the b00merang project https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 You will have to install it manually by overwriting your user-level GTK4 config, but then it will give you proper styling with the latest apps, including full support for mobile UX 'convergence'.

  (Since it seems that the b00merang repo has gone mostly unmaintained, it would be nice if it got imported to Chicago95 itself.)

• Windows 98 Icons
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024

  Chicago95 is nice, but these days you should also install the (experimental) GTK+4 theme from b00merang https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 to get proper styling in the latest apps.

• Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003 and newer
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2024

  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.

• Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024

  https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 has a theme for GTK+4 with classic widgets. Unfortunately you'll need to replace your GTK+ user config outright to use it because the new version has no support for themes.

• Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2023

  Have you tried https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 or any of the similar themes by that project? There's a bit of extra padding still but it's vastly more usable than the Adwaita default. (And of course you don't need to bother w/ the retro icon packs shown in the screenshot, the basic GTK+ theme is plenty enough.)

• Super Proud of my progress with Mint!
  2 projects | /r/linuxmint | 18 Jan 2022

  You should install the Windows 95 theme for Mint to match the wallpaper: https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95/

• Been making some changes since my previous post.
  1 project | /r/pop_os | 16 Sep 2021

  windows 95 by b00merang project

• Linux 98
  2 projects | /r/linux | 9 Aug 2021

  So I decided to marry the best of both worlds. This is my 2012 laptop running Linux Mint 20.2 running the Windows 9x theme made by b00merang over on GitHub. It gets very close to looking like the Windows classic theme. So much so that it has actually fooled me a couple times when I was not paying attention.

• A Touch of..... Nostalgia?
  1 project | /r/linuxmint | 7 Aug 2021

  Continuing my series of trying out Windows-like themes on Linux. This is the Windows 95 theme by, you guessed it, b00merang

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