Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine

Re:Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made ... by arminiusreturns on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:05AM (#38954059)

Not that much actually if you don't mean as a full WM/DE replacement and instead as an on top layer; Godot 4.2 window management on linux is working quite smoothly for me, including multi-window support. From there what you do within the windows is where the magic happens. (see my other post)

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Re:Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made ... by gumballindie on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:44AM (#38954681)

What I mean is a full WM/DE replacement. I mean godot already handles graphics quite nicely. Imagine a desktop that you can control with shaders and runs on Vulkan. That'd be pretty neat.

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Re:Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made ... by arminiusreturns on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:27PM (#38955450)

I've thought about it but it seems daunting so I punted this idea for myself, but it depends on if you mean as an xorg/wayland replacement or if you mean to build on one of those, and even between those two they have a vastly different approach, but there are some minimal foundations that could be built on...

For example, wlroots: "Pluggable, composable, unopinionated modules for building a Wayland compositor; or about 60,000 lines of code you were going to write anyway." So it would also depend on if you mean raw WM or if you want compositing also etc.

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