Hello everyone, I'm Brazilian so excuse my English.
From time to time I take a few days to test different operating systems and distributions. I've been wanting to give Arch Linux a try for a while now. Taking a look at the graphical interface repository, a name caught my attention: Cutefish Desktop. When I researched it, I discovered that it was a new desktop made to measure for a distribution (which was barely born and has since died) called CutefishOS.
( https://cutefish-ubuntu.github.io )
I installed it to try it out and I was surprised by the Desktop, they really did a good job. The interface was written in QT and doesn't seem to be based on anything else. Very similar to MacOS, I think it's the most similar I've ever used. Several aspects caught my attention:
- My notebook is quite old and the interface ran incredibly well.
- Suite of basic applications (calculator, file manager, control panel, text editor, music/video player, etc.) .
- There is practically nothing to configure, you can choose whether you want a light or dark theme, wallpaper, whether you want larger or smaller icons, position, wallpaper, whether you want window effects. Little distraction, it really helps a lot with focus, the file manager is very good.
- Very clean and cohesive, harmonious, coherent design. In order not to waste time and focus on productivity, it's been a while since I saw something so cool.
The Desktop project website on Git Hub is:
Source Code: ( https://github.com/cutefishos ).
SCREENSHOT
As I really liked the project, I tried to compile it on FreeBSD, but I had errors in Bluez and NetworkManager libraries.
After searching, I found the Wanted Ports page:
( https://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts )
Where there was a link to a pre-compiled version for FreeBSD:
( https://github.com/flashmaster237/cutefish-freebsd )
I did the tests on a virtual machine, but without success, the Desktop didn't run. Honestly, I thought the project was very good, FreeBSD deserves this graphical environment, it can certainly bring different users closer to the system.
The author of pre-compiled version describes:
Some components are modified to strip NetworkManager and BlueZ code, the parts using these will be somewhat broken (Control Center, some tabs in the Settings app)
I tried to get in touch to request the modified sources and try to compile, but I never got a response. Here on the forum, isn't there a good algae that can fix the codes to try to run on FreeBSD? I don't have the programming knowledge to do this. Can anyone help? Embrace the project? It would be really cool!
Tanks!!!
From time to time I take a few days to test different operating systems and distributions. I've been wanting to give Arch Linux a try for a while now. Taking a look at the graphical interface repository, a name caught my attention: Cutefish Desktop. When I researched it, I discovered that it was a new desktop made to measure for a distribution (which was barely born and has since died) called CutefishOS.
( https://cutefish-ubuntu.github.io )
I installed it to try it out and I was surprised by the Desktop, they really did a good job. The interface was written in QT and doesn't seem to be based on anything else. Very similar to MacOS, I think it's the most similar I've ever used. Several aspects caught my attention:
- My notebook is quite old and the interface ran incredibly well.
- Suite of basic applications (calculator, file manager, control panel, text editor, music/video player, etc.) .
- There is practically nothing to configure, you can choose whether you want a light or dark theme, wallpaper, whether you want larger or smaller icons, position, wallpaper, whether you want window effects. Little distraction, it really helps a lot with focus, the file manager is very good.
- Very clean and cohesive, harmonious, coherent design. In order not to waste time and focus on productivity, it's been a while since I saw something so cool.
The Desktop project website on Git Hub is:
Source Code: ( https://github.com/cutefishos ).
SCREENSHOT
As I really liked the project, I tried to compile it on FreeBSD, but I had errors in Bluez and NetworkManager libraries.
After searching, I found the Wanted Ports page:
( https://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts )
Where there was a link to a pre-compiled version for FreeBSD:
( https://github.com/flashmaster237/cutefish-freebsd )
I did the tests on a virtual machine, but without success, the Desktop didn't run. Honestly, I thought the project was very good, FreeBSD deserves this graphical environment, it can certainly bring different users closer to the system.
The author of pre-compiled version describes:
Some components are modified to strip NetworkManager and BlueZ code, the parts using these will be somewhat broken (Control Center, some tabs in the Settings app)
I tried to get in touch to request the modified sources and try to compile, but I never got a response. Here on the forum, isn't there a good algae that can fix the codes to try to run on FreeBSD? I don't have the programming knowledge to do this. Can anyone help? Embrace the project? It would be really cool!
Tanks!!!
