"Remember Windows 8? I'm sure I can guess what you remember from that less-than-ideal iteration of Windows. The UI. Microsoft decided that a "card-based" interface was the way to go. At the time, they were also leveraging the Windows Phone, and when you compare them side-by-side, you start to understand why they went this route. Microsoft wanted to outdo Apple."
"I know people who hated it and people who loved it. As for me, I'm indifferent because I never had to use it. There's a Linux developer who either must have used it and misses it, or decided there were enough people out there to constitute an audience for a Linux UI that closely resembled Windows 8. The developer in question goes by er-bharat on GitHub, and his evil-scientist project is called Win8DE."
Windows 8 used a card-based interface influenced by Windows Phone and aimed to compete with Apple. A Linux developer named er-bharat created Win8DE, a desktop environment that closely mimics Windows 8's UI. Win8DE is in alpha and currently suffers dependency and installation problems that prevented a successful setup during a two-hour installation attempt. The project's GitHub repository shows how closely the desktop resembles Windows 8. Few existing KDE Plasma or GNOME themes reproduce Windows 8's card-like interface, which makes Win8DE notable despite its early-stage limitations and expected instability.
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