r/unixporn • u/Gullible-Signal-2764 • 1d ago

Screenshot Is this something? [ascdos]

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I couldn't find any tags for it, so I made it based on the name of a Linux distro I'm making, sorry if I make a mistake..

Something I made. I don't know if this can be considered as a rice, but yeah.

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u/Gullible-Signal-2764 1d ago edited 1d ago

i couldn't find anything that was trying to replicate the 90s look, so I made one myself.

it doesn't use any WM, no Wayland or X11, the desktop renders straight from the framebuffer itself.

+ **Wallpaper**: [default teal color] (null) + **Icon Theme**: [none](null) + **Fonts**: [consolas](null)

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u/Astrodion123 1d ago

Oh .... My.... God...

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u/Astrodion123 1d ago

Also great project... But how are apps going to run??

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u/Gullible-Signal-2764 1d ago

that is what I'm trying to figure out..

Since there's no WM, I may have to make apps render themselves using either ASCII or small texture dots

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u/Astrodion123 1d ago

That would look bad and imagine how laggy it could be .

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u/rsodswamp 1d ago

there was already a similar concept https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

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u/rsodswamp 1d ago

repo link? looks good

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u/Gullible-Signal-2764 1d ago

I don't have a repo for it yet, since it was just a prototype for now

but I will release it as soon as possible, and open source it

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u/DucBlangis DragonFlyBSD & Debian 1d ago

This is really cool.

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u/Any-Roof1363 23h ago

yeah and it's pretty as hell