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

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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

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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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Are you suggesting they should have chosen Wayland? I think they have a good argument against it: "Wayland: Under development since a long time, it offers no clear advantage over Xorg while it makes things more complicated (e.g, breaks screen recording) --> Use Xorg instead, or (maybe even better) no X server at all but pure framebuffer (like *ELEC does for media centers). Also see https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d... " https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelc...
In HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture
ozten·Jan 25, 2023Recommendation phrase
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 such as Linux vs FreeBSD aren't high for me and don't seem end-user focused. An interesting idea I had never thought to question was considering "App Stores" as package managers. "Package managers for end-user applications: Those are aimed at "managing the system", whereas everything that is to be managed on our system can be managed in the file manager and/or other GUI elements. --> Use package managers to produce a system image, which is considered immutable for the end user (like on almost every embedded system/software appliance)" https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/wiki/Welcome-and-unwelc... Good food for thought. Elsewhere they criticize App Stores for their com
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mercial and centralized aspects. But I don't really see an issue with Ubuntu's App Store. It is just a GUI instead of only offering CLI, right?
In HelloSystem – OS with original Mac philosophy with a modern architecture

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