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A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.

73 mentions on Hacker News by 46 people: 7 stories, 66 comments · first 2018-01-12 · latest 2026-06-18

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  1. …(A complete mishmash, I know.) Too bad websites and other apps don't look that way. [0] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [1] https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2021-02-26 · in I found the Bay Area hill in Windows XP's iconic wallpaper
  2. I agree 100%, but you can go further. Like, all the way: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2021-02-09 · in ReactOS Updates
  3. i have been quite happy with a windows95 approximation for gtk: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 here's your comment in firefox with a glorious scrollbar: https://oshi.at/mLveVJ/scrollbar.png
    comment by 5- · 2021-01-23 · in Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
  4. Have you tried Chicago 95? https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by petepete · 2021-01-22 · in Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment
  5. …using themes like these as their actual daily driver? Link to the project with Screenshots: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by awiesenhofer · 2020-12-23 · in Xfce 4.16
  6. Chicago95 for those who run XFCE and just want the best of the looks... https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by unicornporn · 2020-09-20 · in Twister OS: Make Raspberry Pi Look Like Windows or macOS
  7. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by iso8859-1 · 2020-07-04 · in Websites that look like desktop GUIs
  8. You can get back that old-school Windows feeling on Linux with https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by iso-8859-1 · 2020-06-15 · in Remembering Windows 2000
  9. …of Chicago95's demo screenshots is of a browser open to (a different section of) this same website https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Screensho...
    comment by Lammy · 2020-04-29 · in Internet Explorer Is Evil (2002)
  10. …running Xubuntu with the fabulous Chicago 95 theme[1] that brings back the old aesthetic. [1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by olivierestsage · 2020-04-29 · in Internet Explorer Is Evil (2002)
  11. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by anthk · 2020-04-18 · in The Decline of Usability
  12. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by anthk · 2020-03-04 · in Stop using Material Design text fields
  13. Well, several Desktop managers for Linux have old-school Windows-like themes. For example: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by pedrogpimenta · 2020-03-02 · in Windows93
  14. …XFCE for this kind of desktop. With this theme, you can even make XFCE look just like Windows 95. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by petepete · 2019-12-27 · in Windows 95 UI Design
  15. …in actually doing this, Chicago95 is the best way to make XFCE look and feel like Windows 95: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by farmerbb · 2019-08-12 · in Xfce 4.14
  16. I use this XFCE theme on my Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 It takes a bit of work to set up but once you do, it genuinely feels like you're using Windows 95 but with modern Linux apps.
    comment by farmerbb · 2019-01-21 · in Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)