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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. …95 but the 2000 UI wasn't a big divergence from memory. It's familiar and gets out of the way. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by MisterTea · 2026-06-18 · in What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
  2. …SerenityOS. Although not viable for daily driving yet, still fun to play around with in a VM. [1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/ [2] https://github.com/User738git/MENT2K
    comment by d3Xt3r · 2026-05-14 · in Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
  3. Try this: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by kube-system · 2026-03-25 · in VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
  4. Well, there's this, for XFCE: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by forgotmypw17 · 2026-01-12 · in Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
  5. …If you want more than a theme, there's SerenityOS [2] but it isn't suitable for daily use (yet) [1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
    comment by lucasoshiro · 2026-01-12 · in Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
  6. …if you think Windows 95 is pretty, but I'm compelled to drop a link to this on every Xfce post: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2026-01-12 · in Xfce is great
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    Chicago95: Windows 95 for Linux
    story by doener · 2025-12-16 · 1 comment
  8. There's a nice theme for XFCE, Chicago95, that looks a lot like this as well and is quite good! https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by incanus77 · 2025-12-16 · in FVWM-95 (2001)
  9. Add Chicago95, and you've got some comfortable nostalgia. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2025-11-25 · in Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC
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    Chicago95: XFCE / Xubuntu Windows 95 Total Conversion
    story by klaussilveira · 2025-11-13 · 0 comments
  11. …moving the cursor! Memory leak galore. This makes me want to run linux as my daily driver! [1] [1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Screensho...
    comment by citbl · 2025-10-22 · in OpenBSD 7.8
  12. xfce + Chicago 95 is a lovely environment https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by jazzyjackson · 2025-08-16 · in Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
  13. Would you consider Chicago95 a good theme? https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by lnkl · 2025-04-22 · in SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces
  14. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 and https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 get quite close if you use them together. The B00merang one has presets for the GNOME/Cinnamon/MATE desktop and a GTK+4 theme (which adds terrible…
    comment by zozbot234 · 2025-04-22 · in SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces
  15. …are a bit jank and it seems built-in support beyond basic things like accents aren't there. [0] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [1] https://garudalinux.org/editions (screenshots don't do it justice)
    comment by OsrsNeedsf2P · 2025-04-20 · in The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
  16. …If you take the time it can look more like 95. The Chicago95 screenshots IMO look better: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by goosedragons · 2025-03-30 · in Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
  17. …change the grey-ish look with Win95-style theming support. I've not used it, but here's more info: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Plus/READ...
    comment by caseyy · 2025-03-30 · in Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
  18. …Gnome themes, but I used Chicago95 (on XFCE) for 3 years and could count the "jank" on one hand: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by OsrsNeedsf2P · 2025-02-23 · in WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
  19. That's a lot of the reason why I use Chicago95 where I can. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2024-11-11 · in Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer
  20. …95-style interfaces forever instead of whatever we have now, I'd go with Windows 95. Oh wait: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2024-04-07 · in Making Apple Progressive Blur on the Web
  21. …in Windows 98 SE style added and/or created by myself. Hey, Chicago95! My favorite XFCE theme! https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2024-03-25 · in Windows 98 Icons (2015)
  22. …remove much of the excess padding in modern apps. https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 (You should install both; Chicago95 is more actively developed, but B00merang gives you a GTK+4 theme…
    comment by zozbot234 · 2024-03-03 · in Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer
  23. personally I'm obsessed with the Chicago95 theme: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by jazzyjackson · 2024-02-25 · in A modest update to Qubes OS
  24. XFCE total conversion https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 Chicago was the code name for the development version of the highly anticipated Windows95
    comment by fsiefken · 2024-02-17 · in Progman: X11 WM modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era
  25. Haven’t tried either, but there’s https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 and https://serenityos.org/
    comment by latexr · 2024-01-15 · in Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
  26. …quality conversion of all the parts, including themes for all widget libraries and no quirks. [1] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by qwerty456127 · 2023-10-20 · in OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition
  27. Related: you can make Linux look like Windows 95 (98/2000/XP), icons and all: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 It works really well.
    comment by okasaki · 2023-08-23 · in Exploring Windows XP on macOS ARM64
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    Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux
    story by acqbu · 2023-07-30 · 217 comments
  29. I agree, as far as my workstation goes, it's like putting eye candy on a hammer. I use this: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by forgotmypw17 · 2023-05-27 · in Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life?
  30. Currently running Chicago95 on Linux! https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by statquontrarian · 2023-05-13 · in Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC
  31. …XP era. If you want to go full old windows it's an easy next step to run this theme's setup script: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2023-04-05 · in My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
  32. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by leeoniya · 2023-03-26 · in The Graphical User Interface Gallery
  33. …edit /etc/profile.d/gtk.sh, add this: #!/bin/sh export GTK_NO_OVERLAY=1 Chmod +x it. On theming: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 It works best with Ubuntu Mate. With Ubuntu Gnome it will work but not so integrated.
    comment by anthk · 2023-01-16 · in Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
  34. …further to correct for the differences between the author's DE and yours. For LXDE, this project: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 goes further than just a theme, restyling some common utilities as well. It's not Windows 95, but if…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2023-01-16 · in Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
  35. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by anthk · 2022-12-25 · in Win16 Retro Development
  36. …want "Win98, but in 2022," you've found your desktop environment. If you want Windows 95 in 2022: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2022-12-15 · in XFCE 4.18
  37. …a fan of Xubuntu (and XFCE in general) for 14 years or so. You can even dress it up as Windows 95: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2022-12-09 · in Fresh version of XFCE, the oldest Linux desktop of them all in Xubuntu builds
  38. …integrate 98.css's ones, that's great :-) Also worth mentioning: A near-perfect win95 XFCE theme: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by phil294 · 2022-10-24 · in 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
  39. The best ones are usually the Windows themes like [Chicago 95]( https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 ). Users show off on reddit.com/r/unixporn.
    comment by mmgutz · 2022-10-20 · in BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD
  40. …some newer UI elements that are clearly better, etc. I still run "it" via XFCE and Arch Linux: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by 0xfeba · 2022-07-28 · in Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened
  41. …than OS X, although the finer details are usually missing from both (e.g. good keyboard control). https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 https://sourceforge.net/projects/xpde/
    comment by mhd · 2022-07-26 · in Not So Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE)
  42. I have a container I setup with XFCE and this awesome Windows 95 theme: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 Geany works perfectly inside it for a little retro dev environment. It looks and feels just like old Visual Studio versions, but…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2022-04-08 · in NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
  43. My favorite way to make Xfce look better is to use Chicago95 :) https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by forgotmypw17 · 2022-03-20 · in How to Make Xfce Look Better – Ver. 2.0
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    Chicago95: A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 MS operating system for Linux
    story by ghostoftiber · 2022-03-02 · 33 comments
  45. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 Windows 95 theme for XFCE
    comment by jayp1418 · 2021-12-27 · in Windows 2000 Modernization Guide
  46. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 - if anyone's wondering
    comment by petepete · 2021-12-22 · in (mac)ostalgia – how Spotify, Slack, Chrome, Figma could look on Mac OS 9
  47. …the highlight around icons, etc? If this is the better one, I can't imagine the alternatives... https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95/blob/master/Screensho...
    comment by gattilorenz · 2021-12-13 · in Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux
  48. …of something very much 95 inspired, take a look at Chicago95, which only works with Xfce: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by forgotmypw17 · 2021-10-03 · in A GTK theme based on Windows 3.11 appearance
  49. …some things. Or perhaps better, use a windows theme for a linux desktop - and stick to gtk apps. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
    comment by fsiefken · 2021-08-10 · in Elementary OS 6 Odin
  50. I've kinda been doing that for over a year: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 Add Wine, and you'd have a lot of compatibility with the original!
    comment by theandrewbailey · 2021-07-28 · in Designing Windows 95’S User Interface