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> SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core.

More like a love letter to Windows 95 :) It doesn't really have much in common with the Unix GUIs available around that time, which were mostly Motif-based (think FVWM, CDE etc).

In fact it looks so Windows-like (including the applications) that my first impression was that this was another go at making something like ReactOS. But clearly it isn't.

It looks nice though I was never a big fan of the W95 UI. I'm interested to see what it's about. I'll give it a spin.

PS: Fair play for being so open about your addiction. It will help other people face the problem too.




But FVWM(95) is also a love letter to Windows 95, isn't it?


FVWM95 was, certainly. Plain FVWM was very much not - it had a very distinctive look of its own. E.g. [1] is more typical of FVWM.

[1] http://linuxmafia.com/~n6tadam/fvwm/screenshot.png


Ah, thank you for the screenshot. I didn't encounter any machines running classic FVWM.


Yes but FVWM95 was just a minor fork with a Win 95 look. It's not the main look of FVWM.


The UI is inspired by 90s Windows OS’s whilst it’s POSIX OS, command-line utils and terminal is Unix-like, not its GUI.




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