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Awesomely cool project, but I was somewhat dismayed by the choice of GNOME, as GNOME is quite bloated and a smaller window manager, instead of a DE, seems to make more sense while not detracting from usability.


hahaha, this comment is hilarious. The guy got an 8-bit tiny little 55 cent chip (8 bits means an isntruction is between 0-255) to slowly crawl its way through pretending to be a real mdoern CPU by pretending to execute a real modern desktop CPU instruction every few cycles.

He got it to starting up x in a day and you're like, "Cool project bro but I'm dsmayed by the choice of GNOME".

saying it, "detracts from usability." this is just hilarious.


I'm still confused as to whether he's being serious or trolling us hard.


I'm just a GNOME hater... Forgive my uninformed comments.


I don't think there's any graphical usability whatsoever, as the only output is a serial line. He only mentioned X and GNOME to emphasize the fact that it can be started.


Emulator supports framebuffer emulation, and I have run gnome on this. I have not tried KDE :)


I suggest using a Window Manager, such as DWM, instead of a full Desktop Environment like GNOME/KDE/etc.




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