Orhun Parmaksız 👾Sep 7, 2025

You asked, the Rust/TUI community delivered.

**desktop-tui** ~ A full desktop environment... without graphics.

src: https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui

#rustlang #terminal #desktop

Show threadKlaus FrankSep 7, 2025
@orhun Hmm, would this run on one of these old pre win95 computers?
Show threadTim Chase

@agowa338

While I'm not sure about (pre)Win95 since I imagine it uses terminal escape sequences to render things which (pre)Win95 was pretty bad at.

That said, I imagine that it would run just fine on hardware of that vintage—thinking about an old 2001-era Celeron laptop I had that ran OpenBSD—without issue.

Now *building* such a rust project on that hardware? Budget a day or three… 😆

@orhun

Sep 8, 2025 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadKlaus FrankSep 8, 2025

@gumnos @orhun

Well I was more thinking of running it on retro hardware to impress other retro computing fans.

Show threadTim ChaseSep 8, 2025

@agowa338

Assuming the machine had sufficient RAM and adequate CPU to run the contained-programs, it should be fine, and not significantly different from running them all in tmux.

You just might have to build a static binary on a beefier machine and then copy it over to the retro hardware.

@orhun