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Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM

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Cool but Obscure X11 Apps | Jul 2023
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More than you think.

There is also NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life? | May 2023
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Not-so-Common Desktop Environment is a modern attempt at the style. I don't end up using it, but it reminds me wonderfully of a time when computers were made by and for people.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
Microsoft shows full-screen Windows 11 upgrade ads with two 'yes' buttons | Feb 2023
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Try NSCDE https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
CDE 2.5.1 | Oct 2022
Anyone have any opinion on how this stacks up against NsCDE[1] these days?

[1] https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

Hot Dog Linux – Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics | Mar 2022
It's beautiful. Don't change a thing.

Folks who enjoy this may also like NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

Make Linux look like Windows 95 | Feb 2022
I really like the Chicago95 theme here, it's great with XFCE/xubuntu on low spec devices.

I also like installing the Window Maker and OpenBox WMs with a bunch of retro unix backgrounds--they kind of have the feel of CDE and old Solaris systems. I haven't used it but apparently someone is working on a more modern retro feel CDE-inspired thing here: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

Depending on my mood I can log in to a retro Windows or Unix experience. I haven't looked deeply into it but I think saw a Mac System 7 inspired WM theme out there too. IMHO retro modern computing environments are quirky fun that should be a bigger thing. :)

It's not canon to Windows 95, but XScreenSaver pairs nicely to go with the overall late 90s retro feel too: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ These screensavers are exactly the kind of thing workstations of the era would have been blasting in computer labs nearly 24/7.

Ask HN: What's your Linux window manager and/or desktop environment? | Dec 2021
NSCDE (https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE) which is an adaptation of FVWM to resemble CDE. I can't comment how precise an adaptation it is, as I never used CDE.

I have originally switched to Linux ~8 years ago because I was fed up with how Windows doesn't help in managing windows. I then spent most of the time with i3 and xmonad.

CDE is still developed and modern in 2021 | Nov 2021
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Yeah 'modern' implies a lot of things. Anti-aliasing fonts? Nope. Hi-DPI? Desktop notifications? Configurability? Dragging items into menus instead of messing with config files?

But I like that people still maintain it. If I actually wanted to use it I would use NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE It's a CDE skin for a modern FVWM version which does have a lot of mod cons.
CDE is still developed and modern in 2021 | Nov 2021
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Me too but for a different reason. It replaced HP's VUE which had a much 'happier' colour scheme, sans-serif fonts and a nicer-looking 'dock'. HP buried VUE pretty deep after they moved to CDE (which inherited most of the visual design of VUE and some other stuff from the other cooperators IBM and Sun). VUE was what I looked at while studying so it has a strong nostalgic feeling about it for me :) CDE is too different visually to feel 'off'. The colours are too muted and the fonts too traditional. I can see IBM's influence there, VUE was way too 'funky' for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_User_Environment

VUE was never open-sourced sadly and there is no 'remake' of it either like NsCDE: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

But it's just for nostalgia. I wouldn't use it today. I tried recently (I still own an old HP box with 10.20) but it's just too barebones.
CDE is still developed and modern in 2021 | Nov 2021
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Windows 9x aesthetic is good, except for non antialiased fonts. The same can be said about CDE. Take a look a modern lookalike with AA fonts: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE .

Fonts in nscde still look blurry to me, maybe it is missing kerning or hinting... but looks much better to my eyes.
CDE is still developed and modern in 2021 | Nov 2021
NsCDE is worth a look at for those who want the look and feel of CDE, but implemented with some more up-to-date tech.

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE