This Retro Look Is So Good!

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Checking out this retro desktop environment called "Common Desktop Environment" on Arch Linux. thanks for the view
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@JohnPMiller 3 ай бұрын

Common Desktop Environment was the default window manager for Unix workstations. When I switched from SunOS to HP-UX in 1994, the new workstation had CDE. CDE ran on top of X Windows.

@RandomGreymane 3 ай бұрын

My first CDE experience was Solaris on Sparc.

@MisterMsk 3 ай бұрын

When I worked on Sun Stations back in the day. They were the days. :D

@RandomGreymane 3 ай бұрын

⁠I had to have a steel desk due to the Sony boat-anchor monitors. 😆

@RogerioPereiradaSilva77 3 ай бұрын

Running actual CDE is nice and all but you could have used the Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) instead which resembles the CDE look (and partially feel) but with a more powerful and flexible framework beneath-the-surface, more suited for 21st century unix-like and Linux systems and user requirements than original CDE. It swaps certain components with more modern ones that brings some perks such as TrueType support but still retaining that old retro look.

@NovaspiritTech 3 ай бұрын

I did notice nscde, I'll have to check it out

@davocc2405 3 ай бұрын

How to tell people "BTW I use Arch Linux" in the most beige way possible

@esra_erimez 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact: CDE was built on the Motif widget toolkit

@davidf8749 3 ай бұрын

This was a walk down memory lane for me. Being an IT person back when Solaris was the OS, it wasn't too bad to look at the engineer's desktop problems. Usually something with .dtrc or in the ~/.dt subdirectory would fix many problems. Happy days :)

@anonytuser711 3 ай бұрын

I used CDE on Debian in 1999. This brings me back.

@KomradeMikhail 3 ай бұрын

Try the Sparky Linux distro if you want to test out obscure Desktop Enviornments... It has many of them already compiled in it's repos, with an easy GUI switcher, plus tweaks to make them all work better. This includes CDE, and it's slightly more modernized version NsCDE.

@luisbperez368 Ай бұрын

I have to say that I never heard of that distro, so I checked it out. I have CDE on one of my Raspberry Pi, and it got sluggish lately. I have a spare mini PC and a 19” 4:3 monitor for the retro look. I am going to give it a try with the NsCDE. Thank you very much. I am an old fart (63 years young 😂), and I have fond memories of the CDE environment. Stay safe 🙏.

@KomradeMikhail Ай бұрын

@@luisbperez368 No prob, komrade. I also had fond memories of working with CDE on top of HP-UX on an HP 9000 system back in the late 1990's. I keep Sparky with NsCDE on my backup laptop now. Just for nostalgia sake. It's not great as a daily driver, but it's fine for a backup.

@zathrasjr 3 ай бұрын

Well, that's a blast from the past for me... I worked in the AOL NOC in the 90's and it was mostly HP-UX hardware, so CDE was the interface I was using all day. Cool stuff man.

@JanEringa8k 3 ай бұрын

Spent many happy hours in CDE as a Solaris Admin :) Lots of happy memories!

@AlistairBrugsch 25 күн бұрын

This is wild. I used CDE back in the day on my University HP Apollo Unix workstations and it literally doesn't look any different now than it did in '96

@RocktCityTim 3 ай бұрын

Love me some CDE! I still keep a copy of the LessTIF code handy. My first intro was SCO UNIX back in the early 90s when it required the commercial MOTIF libraries.

@uuu12343 2 ай бұрын

This unironically looks really aesthetically pleasing af

@uuu12343 2 ай бұрын

This is also still beong updated, surprisingly, unlike bspwm and sxhkd which is my favourite

@iteranq 24 күн бұрын

Oh God, its so retro that is gorgeous !!!!

@zyghom 3 ай бұрын

in around 1999 I used to work as Solaris 2.7 admin, that was exactly the DE used that time ;-) Old good times

@IronRex 2 ай бұрын

Flashbacks to college in early 2K. Computer lab's Windows machines were always occupied but Unix workstations (Sun Sparc with SunOS 5.7 I think) were usually available. If you knew the right commands you could launch CDE and do almost everything that you would want to do with a Windows machine. No waiting. Knowledge is power! Also it was warmer by the printers.

@Dries007BE 3 ай бұрын

Oh man, this is what we used at school on our HP-UX with thin clients. Programming C with the built-in notepad style text editor with a single undo because I thought using vi(m) was cheating. Fun times.

@dave7244 3 ай бұрын

We had CDE on "Sun Ray" thin clients at university. It was pretty terrible back then. I can't imagine it being any good now.

@garyreardon11 3 ай бұрын

Looks really good.

@ewenchan1239 3 ай бұрын

I was using CDE as recently as last year when I was trying to help do a little bit of testing with the OpenZFS/coreutils data corruption bug and seeing if Solaris 10 1/13 had that same bug in Solaris' version of ZFS or not. (I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.) I used to use it all the time when in the early 2000s when I was running a Solaris 8, then 9, then 10 server on a Pentium MMX 166.

@jeffrodrequez 3 ай бұрын

As someone in his early 50s, I remember my first coding job running DOS with Windows 3.11, so while its "retro" and "cool" to the younger folks - its just ugly to me, lol, I have no desire to go back to the desktop I used for the first 7 years of my computer career. Great video though and definitely interesting!

@dave7244 3 ай бұрын

It worth looking at something like Window Maker as it far better IMO than CDE.