Meanwhile I have a 12 years old desktop PC still going strong. The mobile OS world looks pretty sad in comparison.

The latest casio lcd screens are amazing in terms of readability. They don't have the digits shadow problem anymore (this was especially plaguing the negative displays). It's really night and day.

That is because the png are not optimized, using lossless PNG compression (OxiPNG + AdvPNG) I get the Lossy LZ4I down to 696819 bytes.

Yes, thank you for pointing this out. To be more precise about it:

    Original PNG:    1310987 bytes
    Lossy PNG:       1154386 bytes (90.4% of LZ4i)
    Lossy LZ4i:      1276477 bytes
    More Lossy PNG:   693278 bytes
    More Lossy LZ4i:  818774 bytes (84.7% of LZ4i)

So it's notable that this lossy PNG technique has diminishing returns for LZ4i - it actually becomes more effective as a PNG preprocessor as you get more lossy, relative to LZ4i!

Still, there's a decent argument that PNG is no longer Pareto-optimal. There's stuff that gets close to the same compression ratio but decompresses much faster, and there's stuff that compresses much better and is also lossless, e.g. JPEG-XL lossless mode.

you will love aspect-ratio: 1/1;

I feel like BeOS was even cleaner. And it made my old PC feel really snappier than win98.

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/beos-1....

It's there, in the first image of the article.

Raised by wolves

And Interstellar

I am Mother https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Mother

And 2001 Nights.

yes

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs

Gnome 2 was Windows 95 UI, refined, cleaned of all bloat and with a modern look (for his time). All installed apps were automatically stored is the right sub-menu in the Application button. It was really neat to use.

XFCE basically still is that. No "reinventing the desktop experience" junk, just a rock-solid desktop with all the features you expect.

All features except running on Wayland.

MATE (https://mate-desktop.org/) is the modern, supported, version of Gnome2. It's a great desktop environment and all your old nautilus scripts will work with just a s/nautilus/caja/ regex replacement.

Is there already a working app that people can install and use?

I’m building one here, using a mock implementation of Apple’s framework based on their documentation:

https://github.com/CrunchyBagel/TracePrivately/