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Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
57•DustinBrett•4h ago
Demo: https://dustinbrett.com

Hey HN!

I've been building my passion project daedalOS for over 4 years now.

The original idea was to give visitors to my website the experience as if they had remotely connected to my personal machine. To do this I decided I would attempt to recreate as much of the functionality as possible.

My hope is to keep working on this project for the rest of my life and continue to evolve it's capabilities as technologies progress.

Thanks for checking it out!

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doublerabbit•1h ago
Swish.

One thing I found as a minor distraction was that when you go to browse a folder the tab title of tab changes to the folder.

jeffhuys•1h ago
Much deeper and works better than anything like it, at least from what I’ve seen around the web. And that’s only from my phone. Very well done

I even got quake to run, haven’t tried connecting a keyboard yet.

1bpp•1h ago
This is really impressive and surprisingly visually close to Explorer, especially the font rendering and the button hover effects. I also started poking around to see how the animated wallpaper was done and the custom devtools were a nice surprise too. I don't know how much Microsoft cares about people ripping Windows icons, but directly using icons from Facebook Messenger, VLC, VSCode, Chromium, etc might be more of a concern if it starts to get more attention.
exe34•1h ago
Very nice! I only managed to nest two browsers, the third one didn't seem to be responding - although that might be the hug of death.
nichol4s•1h ago
This is amazing - well done, and indeed runs oh-so smooth - even on mobile!

I see that the browser is somewhat limited as most sites try to prevent 'embedding'. However, we have a solution where we can proxy any web content in such a way to still allow you to embed it: https://www.webfuse.com/use-case/embed-unembeddable-content

Lmk if you would like to try this out and I can help you set this up.

vishnudeva•1h ago
Just magical! It's so realistic that I had to remind myself that it was a website and not a VM!

The nuances you've captured across so many different interfaces must've taken you a long time!

90s_dev•45m ago
Wow, this is an incredibly full featured Win10-like OS using plain HTML, with apps like Quake3 and Tic80 built in.

Besides having something you can continuously work on, what's the current concrete end goal for it for users?

_joel•44m ago
Amazing work, well done. Just spent a good chunk of time playing Quake
rfl890•36m ago
The accuracy and attention to detail in the UI is amazing. You even got the little window borders right. Nice work!
benrutter•24m ago
This is insanely cool! I really want to know how programmes like Vim are running under the hood, is this emulation? Either way, massive congrats on an awesome fun project.

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