What if you used a late 80s Unix system for your job or university, but still wanted a nice GUI? Here’s a nice selection of window managers and GUIs that will make your boring installation look awesome!

What if you used a late 80s Unix system for your job or university, but still wanted a nice and pretty GUI to use? Well then, let’s discover a nice selection of window managers and graphical user interfaces that will make your boring installation look awesome!

  • Blisscast@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 天前

    Thank you! You’re right, I’m too young to have been there at the time, but I’m deeply fascinated by these things, and would like to share them with a new audience as well! It’s always amazing to read comments written by people who were there at the time, and see new perspectives!

    I managed to obtain an SGI Indy, but I haven’t done much with it yet, I’ll have to research it a bit more. As for Enlightenment, that will be for a future Episode about the rest of X Window System, there were simply too many to include in this one.

    Glad you enjoyed it!

    • dparticiple@sh.itjust.works
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      1 天前

      I’m heartened to see a younger person taking an interest in vintage computing topics! *nix / Linux window manager customization (a la Enlightenment) is still a very active space (for instance, on Lemmy, look at the “unixporn” communities - SFW despite the name, featuring user WM customizations). I hope you’ll continue writing!

      • Blisscast@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        6 小时前

        Thank you! I’ll definitely have a look at those, perhaps they’ll give me some inspiration for my new Endeavour OS installation.

        I’ll definitely keep on writing this, as I’d like to hopefully reach Windows Vista (and its fascinating beta, Longhorn), and maybe even 8, we’ll see. It will take a while, but I’ll get there!