WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops(github.com)

283 points by nateb2022 1 year ago | 178 comments

Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs(github.com)

105 points by kuba-orlik 2 years ago | 79 comments

Dec's OS-like RSX-11M for the Z280 CPU(github.com)

26 points by JPLeRouzic 3 years ago | 3 comments

Hacker News Enhancement Suite is best thing since sliced bread(github.com)

9 points by replyifuagree 3 years ago | 8 comments

Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture(github.com)

100 points by ingve 2 years ago | 30 comments

Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper than usual(github.com)

108 points by keepamovin 3 years ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs(felixrieseberg.github.io)

1061 points by felixrieseberg 1 year ago | 257 comments

Download page for Clippy, a desktop app with a 1990s Windows-style interface for chatting with large language models running locally via llama.cpp.

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)

767 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 572 comments

Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison(blogsystem5.substack.com)

564 points by LorenDB 2 years ago | 488 comments

Julio Merino's Blog System/5 post comparing the design of Windows NT with Unix and asking what made NT advanced and whether that still holds.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview(community.openai.com)

436 points by allanrbo 2 months ago | 295 comments

OpenAI community forum post announcing a preview of Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification challenge.

Wild – A fast linker for Linux(github.com)

362 points by hkalbasi 1 year ago | 183 comments

GitHub repository for Wild, a very fast linker for Linux by David Lattimore, licensed under Apache-2.0 and MIT.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.