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by oaiey 1128 days ago
There is something with this idea: recreate a desktop environment in the browser. I have done it in the late 90s (obviously in PHP), and until today they show up regularly. Once MacOS, once windows, in svelte, in react, whatever. I thought it/I was brilliant then but nowadays I cannot even grasp the idea on why I did that.

Never seen any in production for anything, and the only remnants like movable panels of properties always feel misplaced on web pages/apps.
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anxion 1128 days ago
Synology's Disk Station Manager recreates a desktop environment.

https://demo.synology.com/en-us/dsm

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vkazanov 1128 days ago
It does work amazingly well. I expected the typical Linux/unix ui for simple stuff, console for configuration kind of setup with my NAS.

Turns out things just work ALL THE TIME. I don't remember even having to tweak stuff. It just works.

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sgt 1128 days ago
Synology's web desktop is really slick. Is there an open source web desktop environment that comes close? I've seen os.js etc but that looks a bit dated now. The React ones for Win11 are a bit immature still.
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DustinBrett 1127 days ago
I'd like to think my project daedalOS comes close and is fully functional as far as desktop environments in the browser go. Feel free to check it out.

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

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sgt 1127 days ago
Most impressive one I've seen so far. It even works on mobile which is unheard of for most web based desktop environments.
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hakre 1128 days ago
> Is there an open source web desktop environment that comes close?

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2021-05-05-meet-webtops-a-li...

(note: one may consider this cheating)

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ric2b 1125 days ago
QNAP does the same, also works pretty well.
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