Win8DE: Windows 8-Style Desktop Environment for Linux
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Summary
Win8DE is a Linux desktop environment that recreates the Windows 8 user interface experience for Linux users who miss Windows 8's fluid animations but can't use the original OS due to hardware compatibility issues or non-functional apps. The project provides a shell for Wayland window managers like Labwc and Hyprland, offering a wallpaper utility, lock screen, start menu, OSD for volume and brightness controls, and a settings app for wallpapers. Notably, it excludes the charms menu which the developer considered useless. The project is hosted on GitHub as an open-source initiative.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledWindows 8 revival on Linux.
If you are one of who enjoyed the windows 8 and miss its fluid animations but have since moved to linux.
This is for you it is a shell for wayland window managers like Labwc hyprland etc.
It gives a wallpaper utility, a lock screen, a start menu, an OSD for volume and brightness a settins app for wall.
it dosent provide charms menu because i always thought its useless.
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