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helloSystem / hello

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Desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!

14Distinct people
20Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
2.5KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I am very attracted to this idea. I want a clean desktop daily driver that prioritizes UX. I love many of the UX-focused priorities, but a much larger % of their priorities…

ozten used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:01:40 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year20 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-07-17 13:54:21 UTC to 2024-08-27 16:40:28 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 4 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC743
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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If you, like me, was wondering what this is, this bit from https://hellosystem.github.io/docs might be helpful: > helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac. FreeBSD is used as the core operating system. Please refer to https://github.com/helloSystem/hello if you would like to learn more about the ideas and principles behind hello.
In HelloSystem
I had to scroll back a long ways for this, but you might want to keep an eye on helloSystem[1]. While they don't seem to be super polished yet, their "MacOS Dream Clone" concept is something you might me amenable to. >GNOME generally is rather odd, even if it's one of the more polished options. It strikes me more as a somewhat-desktop-adapted iOS than it does macOS. That's because Gnome has to fulfill different responsibilities as a toolkit. It has to accommodate for touch-enabled devices, which pads out the UI quite a bit. It takes some getting used to, but I think I'm finally quite into it. It does a nice job of maximizing the actionable area of your window without sacrificing usability, uniformity or screen space. Compared to Big Sur's design language, the Gnome devs are already quite pretty far ahead of the game in my opinion. Gnome 4
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0[2] positions the DE in a pretty good spot for the next several years, too. [1] https://github.com/helloSystem/hello [2] https://forty.gnome.org/
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