This Retro Look Is So Good!

Checking out this retro desktop environment called "Common Desktop Environment" on Arch Linux. thanks for the view

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[JohnPMiller]

Common Desktop Environment was the default window manager for Unix workstations. When I switched from SunOS to HP-UX in 1994, the new workstation had CDE. CDE ran on top of X Windows.

[RogerioPereiradaSilva]

Running actual CDE is nice and all but you could have used the Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) instead which resembles the CDE look (and partially feel) but with a more powerful and flexible framework beneath-the-surface, more suited for 21st century unix-like and Linux systems and user requirements than original CDE. It swaps certain components with more modern ones that brings some perks such as TrueType support but still retaining that old retro look.

[davidf]

This was a walk down memory lane for me. Being an IT person back when Solaris was the OS, it wasn't too bad to look at the engineer's desktop problems. Usually something with .dtrc or in the ~/.dt subdirectory would fix many problems. Happy days :)

[KomradeMikhail]

Try the Sparky Linux distro if you want to test out obscure Desktop Enviornments... It has many of them already compiled in it's repos, with an easy GUI switcher, plus tweaks to make them all work better. This includes CDE, and it's slightly more modernized version NsCDE.

[esra_erimez]

Fun fact: CDE was built on the Motif widget toolkit

[anonytuser]

I used CDE on Debian in 1999. This brings me back.

[davocc]

How to tell people "BTW I use Arch Linux" in the most beige way possible

[zathrasjr]

Well, that's a blast from the past for me... I worked in the AOL NOC in the 90's and it was mostly HP-UX hardware, so CDE was the interface I was using all day. Cool stuff man.

[JanEringak]

Spent many happy hours in CDE as a Solaris Admin :)
Lots of happy memories!

[IronRex]

Flashbacks to college in early 2K. Computer lab's Windows machines were always occupied but Unix workstations (Sun Sparc with SunOS 5.7 I think) were usually available. If you knew the right commands you could launch CDE and do almost everything that you would want to do with a Windows machine. No waiting. Knowledge is power! Also it was warmer by the printers.

[AlistairBrugsch]

This is wild. I used CDE back in the day on my University HP Apollo Unix workstations and it literally doesn't look any different now than it did in '96

[zyghom]

in around 1999 I used to work as Solaris 2.7 admin, that was exactly the DE used that time ;-)
Old good times

[RocktCityTim]

Love me some CDE! I still keep a copy of the LessTIF code handy. My first intro was SCO UNIX back in the early 90s when it required the commercial MOTIF libraries.

[iteranq]

Oh God, its so retro that is gorgeous !!!!

[DriesBE]

Oh man, this is what we used at school on our HP-UX with thin clients. Programming C with the built-in notepad style text editor with a single undo because I thought using vi(m) was cheating.
Fun times.

[uuu]

This unironically looks really aesthetically pleasing af

[jeffrodrequez]

As someone in his early 50s, I remember my first coding job running DOS with Windows 3.11, so while its "retro" and "cool" to the younger folks - its just ugly to me, lol, I have no desire to go back to the desktop I used for the first 7 years of my computer career. Great video though and definitely interesting!

[ewenchan]

I was using CDE as recently as last year when I was trying to help do a little bit of testing with the OpenZFS/coreutils data corruption bug and seeing if Solaris 10 1/13 had that same bug in Solaris' version of ZFS or not. (I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.)

I used to use it all the time when in the early 2000s when I was running a Solaris 8, then 9, then 10 server on a Pentium MMX 166.

[Flako-dd]

I Had to use CDE on Sun boxes during Uni, this was so horrible that it does not make the retro vibe cut for me :D

[HometownUnicorn]

Nova, could you please update and do a few new videos on docker and portainer on the raspberry pi 5 please.