Developer’s 1994 Linux desktop recreation runs in your browser as a modern web app — open-source project brings old-school CDE interface back from the dead and features classic 90s web browser, text editor, and more

A new GitHub project has resurrected the 1994 Linux experience with this Debian clone in your browser, a pixel-for-pixel recreation of the original Common Desktop Environment that early Unix system users will be familiar w…

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‘So big, it’s basically a Start screen again’: Windows 11’s new Start menu is getting some hate — and triggering Windows 8 flashbacks

Windows 11’s new Start menu is proving seriously divisive – some feel it’s huge and badly designed, but there are fans too.
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Microsoft’s planned new AI trick for Edge will ‘automatically open the Copilot side pane’ with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already

Microsoft is looking to bring a new AI trick to Edge — and I’m betting most of the browser’s users will hate it.

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‘Windows 11 is far from perfect’: Microsoft just released an update I actually want to install — and you should too

Microsoft is forcing another Windows 11 update on us, but this one is actually worth installing

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Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing

Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS

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Will the Control Panel ever die? Rare feature migration to Settings spotted in Windows 11, but don’t get your hopes up for more of this

Microsoft shifts another Windows 11 feature to Settings from the Control Panel — but I expect the latter will still be with us in the 2030s.
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Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 — major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first

A major kernel update, Linux 7.0, has been officially released. Although it’ll take some time to show up in various Linux distros, the kernel comes with preliminary support for AMD’s upcoming Zen 6 and Intel’s Nova Lake.
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Can’t afford a fancy new graphics card? Here’s how to turn your outdated GPU into a frame-gen machine for less than the price of a 6-piece chicken nugget meal

Can’t afford an RTX 5090? I can’t either — but I’ve transformed my old GPU into a dedicated frame-gen card with this super-cheap app.
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Creator of Window’s Task Manager shows off ‘probably what Task Manager would look like if I were still around’ — Tempest AI’s retro-futuristic dashboard code shared to Github

Dave Plummer created Tempest AI to play the classic Atari game, but he also built a dashboard which imagines what Task Manager should look like if he were still in charge of it.
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Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today over bizarre DDOS attack and manipulated archives — website operator caught tweaking their own archive

Wikipedia officially blacklists all links to Archive Today

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