SerenityOS/serenity

> Now, if someone wants to recreate win95 You can try Chicago95 [1], but it's only a XFCE theme. If you want more than a theme, there's SerenityOS [2] but it isn't suitable for daily use (yet) [1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity

> https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity is just that, except it's a whole OS that's Win2k styled. It's a Unix underneath, though. A strange modernised Unix written in C++ but it's definitely Unix-like. It's a Unix-like with a Win2K GUI, which is a pretty attractive combination, TBH...

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity is just that, except it's a whole OS that's Win2k styled. If it ever gets good hardware support it might have a chance. Or maybe ReactOS - the actual windows clone - gets finished. Rumours put a first release date some time after Hurd.

Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/graphs/commit-activity If Cloudflare wants to defend the future of the web, maybe they could also throw a few dollars towards projects with better governance and aren't helmed by a BFDL with a spotty record and are written in a more future-proof language than C++ [0]. (For example, Servo.) [0]: In Kling's own words! https://web.archive.org/web/20250819053816/https://awesomekling.github.io/Memory-safet…