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Websites, web apps, portfolios that look like desktop operating systems

19 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 16 comments · first 2019-10-09 · latest 2026-05-27

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  1. …as being a neat web desktop that also is interestingly connected, networked, which is neat. https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops https://bsky.app/profile/aetheros.computer I do think we need to ask a little more "what next?".…
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    Web Desktops
    story by southwindcg · 2025-09-11 · 0 comments
  3. Very nice; you should submit it to this collection of web desktops: https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
    comment by semolino · 2024-08-04 · in I made Windows 11 clone with React.js
  4. Similar: https://simone.computer More: https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
  5. Another one for the https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops !
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-01-01 · in DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser
  6. …css was/is used for styling in GNOME for a while. These days there's tons of web desktop projects. https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops . Only sort of in the spirit but i quite adore Greenfield, an html5 Wayland…
    comment by rektide · 2023-06-29 · in The new desktop Outlook is a bad idea
  7. As a matter of fact there is [1] I'm personally curating it and check up on the links weekly. [1] https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
  8. Thanks glad you liked it! There other "desktop environments" in the browser ( https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops ), but I tried my best to be one of the more accurate/functional ones.
  9. …Systems running in a browser. https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops https://github.com/copy/v86 https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_desktop https://github.com/zriyansh/awesome-os…
  10. …my skills to attempt it. As for more sites recreating the web desktop idea, here is a great list: https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
    comment by DustinBrett · 2022-04-07 · in Ask HN: Share your personal site
  11. …inspiration for me, cause it was taken very seriously. This site has a good list of Web Desktops. https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
    comment by DustinBrett · 2022-03-29 · in WebAssembly in my browser desktop environment
  12. …with tons of features that looks like Windows 10. This is a great list of similar projects https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops . My favorite is probably Windows 93, but this Windows 96 one is in my top 5.
    comment by DustinBrett · 2021-07-28 · in Windows 96
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    Web Desktops
    story by luke2m · 2021-05-18 · 0 comments
  14. https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops for more of these.
  15. Make a PR at https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops
  16. It should already be in this list https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops
  17. …curating a list [1] of all these websites and webapps that look like vintage desktop UIs. [1] https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-gui-websites
    comment by syx · 2020-03-02 · in Windows93
  18. Bunch of great ones here: https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-gui-websites
    comment by kickscondor · 2020-02-20 · in Poolside.fm
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    A collection of websites which look like desktop computer GUIs
    story by syx · 2019-10-09 · 0 comments