"What is special about MiDesktop is that it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. This is essentially KDE 1. It's not a modern take on KDE 1 (as that would be KDE Plasma). There are no extra bells and whistles to satisfy those of us who love our aesthetics with a dash of transparency, window effects, and lots of options. This, my friends, is straight-up KDE 1."
"KDE 1 was light-years ahead of what the Linux desktop had been, and there was nothing that could top it. Those were days, for certain. I won't call them "the good old days" because I try to live in the now as much as possible. What I will say is that there was definitely an air of palpable excitement in the Linux community."
KDE 1 development began in 1996, and MiDesktop aims to resurrect the classic KDE 1 experience thirty years later. MiDesktop is a faithful fork of KDE 1 built atop the Osiris toolkit, itself a fork of Qt 2. The project intentionally avoids modern desktop effects and added features, preserving the original KDE 1 aesthetics and simplicity. MiDesktop is currently in beta and remains rough around the edges. Installation packages are available for Debian Trixie and Ubuntu Noble Numbat, and users can test MiDesktop in virtual machines to experience the retro Linux desktop.
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