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by offtop5 1956 days ago
I feel really stupid to ask , but can I install this on Windows.
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MayeulC 1956 days ago
Not sure about Gnome, but one used to be able to install KDE on windows https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-kde-in-windows/

IIRC even KDE plasma worked. But these days there are a few KDE apps on the microsoft store or on kde.org.

Even if you could install that on windows (compiling everythong with cygwin?), it wouldn't really be windows, mind you.

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iulian_r 1956 days ago
You can only install this on windows in a VM (like Virtual Box). You also can't install it directly, you would need a Linux distribution as well. It would be easier to wait until Ubuntu or Fedora releases a new version which contains this version of GNOME. Desktop Environments on Linux are basically GUI themes.
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EarthIsHome 1956 days ago
Not only are they GUI themes, some desktop environments come packaged with different utility software. (e.g. Gnome comes with GTK-based utility software like Gedit, and KDE comes with KDE-based utility software like Kwrite.
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offtop5 1956 days ago
Has anyone ever made a Windows gui them. I need the functionality of windows, but I much tire of the way Windows looks now
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sagarm 1952 days ago
Yes, alternative shells for Windows used to exist. Back in the ME days I used Litestep:

http://litestep.net/

No idea if they still work.

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go561192 1956 days ago
Maybe this is what you are looking for?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/windowsthe...

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ht_th 1955 days ago
Yes, sort of. Use WSL2 and a Xserver like https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ that runs on Windows.
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offtop5 1955 days ago
Any way to get it to run Windows applications. Would it be possible to build something like that
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