This is very funny. But I think it would make me feel like I was working inside of Papers Please or some similar game.
PanicAdmin•27m ago
I see that this very bad idea is returning from the 90's.
brink•11m ago
What's so bad about it?
austinthetaco•9m ago
I reckon a lot of the people clamoring for these things are gen z or younger first discovering the idea of customizable OS's and are now going through all the awful decisions that were made before. Pretty sure I've seen a version of this skeuomorphic desktop like 15 times at this point.
seemaze•23m ago
Man, first Felix Reiseberg[0], then OpenCode 2.0[1], and now this in the last 24 hrs. Really giving off heavy Myst vibes. They are briefly interesting encounters, buy I deeply hope this isn't a legitimate UI trend.
It's hardly even skeuomorphism, it's a almost digital twin with rendered with Phong.
Yes! Please bring back the soul we had with retro OS GUIs (and the speed)... it's time for a resurgence. Especially with new systems/RAM/GPUs/etc. not being a thing for quite a while for a lot of people now.
RugnirViking•16m ago
the "paper windows" idea doesn't seem to have been done with as much soul as the rest of the ui. Just a turned up corner. I reckon something done there could really tie this togetjer
alehlopeh•6m ago
A “dog-eared corner” in fact. The readme is painful to read if you have an aversion to Claude prose.
esperent•15m ago
I love this, at least from the screenshots. I'll test it out tomorrow. I hope this kind of design makes a comeback.
acheron•13m ago
Fantastic. Giving me memories of MS Bob. Put a talking animal assistant in the corner and you’ve got it. Oh, and you could connect the assistant to an LLM of course.
nntwozz•13m ago
Flashback to TabWorks.
Compaq Presario 486 1994, I was 10.
And yes, played Myst on it.
Tempus fugit…
iamnothere•12m ago
This is neat, it’s not for me (I prefer extreme minimalism) but I could see how some would prefer it. I like how we’re getting more desktop options now thanks to wlroots.
bovermyer•12m ago
I love this. Hopefully we start to see more experiments like this.
brink•9m ago
This is lovely. I really hope society returns to chasing beauty again. We need it.
xbar•5m ago
Love it. Maximize skeuomorphic design.
bmurphy1976•4m ago
I want more stuff like this. The era 20 years ago (e.g. Enlightenment) was way more fun than the bland monotonic design we have these days. If you like bland modern design, great, that should be an option as well, but we should still have good variety.
uolmir•27m ago