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Good things
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Windows 95
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// TODO: Include a screenshot.
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Most applications followed design guidelines, giving a unified and simple UI.
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Could be reasonably well controlled from the keyboard.
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SerenityOS
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https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
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// TODO: Include a screenshot.
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A project with a much larger scope than Haven but with somewhat similar goals,
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to create a nice new environment. Gives proof that such a project can be
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written in few people, given proper experience.
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ToaruOS
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https://github.com/klange/toaruos
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Similarly to SerenityOS, this proves that one can write an entire operating
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system from scratch. Somewhat sadly, it just replicates the Linux desktop
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without trying to make any fundamental changes whatsoever. Still, it makes for
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a very interesting data point.
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Haiku
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Pretty. Desktop-first. Just the window manager sucks, and C++ is no longer
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a reasonable choice for a high-level programming language, despite all the
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effort to improve it. It's the foundations that are rotten.
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VIM
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Customizable modal text editor allowing for rather efficient editing. While the
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internals might not be so great, the user interface is hard to beat once you get
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used to it.
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With https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp/[vim-lsp] it even shines as an
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IDE, which is a wonderful development.
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Qt Creator
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// TODO: Include a screenshot.
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Has a very good VIM emulator (rare!), excellent code navigation on top of that,
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clean UI.
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Primarily a C++ IDE, yet slowly the Language Server Protocol implementation
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makes it transcend into a general-purpose one.
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Vimperator/Pentadactyl/qutebrowser
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Vimperator/Pentadactyl has created a new standard in web browser usability.
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The most important innovations being the addition of modality to the web browser
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and the "follow link" feature, which is what I feel all mouse-first UIs
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deserve.
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Too bad it can no longer work in current versions of Firefox as they cut off
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all support for XUL addons. The good times are already behind us. I certainly
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enjoyed them.
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qutebrowser went somewhat beyond in terms of how neat the integration of a VIM
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interface and a web browser engine can be, rebuilding the concept on top of
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Webkit, but to this day it lacks a normal AdBlock, and thus remains a toy.
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SourceHut
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https://sourcehut.org/
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Drew might be an opinionated asshole but that's not necessarily a bad quality.
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His creations are compatible with my values.
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WikiWikiWeb
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http://wiki.c2.com/
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An interesting knowledge base. Simple formatting, automatic links. I've
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borrowed the general concept for this very collection of texts (I don't want
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to say "wiki" since no one else can edit).
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It's a shame that it's been frozen in time.
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AsciiDoc
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I despise Markdown for its choices, and I don't want to suffer while writing.
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Granted, I can see some faults in AsciiDoc as well, notably with how hard it is
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to parse and process, but I haven't found anything better yet. One day I might
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create a processor for a slightly modified subset of it. Until then,
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libasciidoc is what I'll be using for all markup.
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Plan 9, Go
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Pervasive simplicity. Sometimes it's annoying but overall you get the feeling
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you have the entire platform under your control.
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