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godot

Yes! My thoughts exactly.

I'm pretty desperate for an OS UI that looks like this. KDE comes close but still too modernized.

Would love to try Serenity on a laptop some time. Anyone know how usable this is as a daily driver?

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It is usable only in a VM, sadly.

If you like to hack around and enjoy playing Diablo 1 on obscure software, Serenity OS is for you :)

It seems to be at least somewhat capable of booting on metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT-ME3PsKtc

That is really inspiring to see!

I can't but wonder how nice it would be if ported to ARM devices. If Linux can run on $15 small boards with much fewer resources than big PCs, this much lighter OS could literally fly.

People are actively working on Arm support!

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/search?q=arm&type=

LXQt with a retro theme may do it. The project reached version 1.0 at the beginning of this month.

https://lxqt-project.org/about/

https://www.opencode.net/abgr/qtstep

There's a well-known retro theme for GTK+ too. Works quite well in LXDE and Xfce.

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