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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity” by mirimir on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:48PM (#22294660)
Yeah, same here.

Like, what's the point of an "operating system UI" in a Linux desktop environment?

But then, I also don't get the point of doing that in some game engine called Unity.

I mean, is that a viable way to do a desktop?

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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity” by thiht on Monday February 10, 2020 @07:52PM (#22295015)
You're literally on Hacker news. Not everything needs to be viable. Fun is enough.
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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity” by mirimir on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:01PM (#22295330)
I guess.

Maybe it's just satire about flashy but useless eye candy.

When you're running lots of VMs, you end up using as little RAM as possible. It used to bug the hell out of me that Whonix came with KDE. Now finally they switched to XFCE. My Debian VMs get 1-2GB, and some script-laden sites can freeze them.

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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity” by Nition on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:48PM (#22295255)
As stated in the link (although it mightn't be clear if you're not a game dev), it's so you can make games with operating system UI, such as Emily Is Away[1].

The linked one is particularly polished; it would have taken ages to implement all those little details.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/417860/Emily_is_Away/

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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity” by mirimir on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:03PM (#22295346)
Ah. I missed that. Thanks.
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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity” by MrEldritch on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:14PM (#22300911)
The point of doing an operating system UI in a game engine is so that you can use that operating system UI within games written in that engine!

There's several examples - Simulacra, Emily was Away, Hypnospace Outlaw - that use the interface of an (imaginary) computer as their primary framing device.

Or it could be useful in an immersive-sim type game where there happen to be computers you can interact with; you could immediately see the applications in some kind of hacking-themed game.

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Re:“I made an operating system UI within Unity” by mirimir on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:09PM (#22303470)
Huh. I never got into gaming. Except that my life has become more and more LARP.

So yeah, I get it. Of course there'd be computers in games.

But once you have an OS in a game, why not just run a VM? Or would that use too many resources?

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