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yjftsjthsd-h • today at 6:07 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

I'm mildly bemused at the other comments treating this as a blast from the past. I use icewm today as a super low resource DE for a headless remote desktop system, with a major benefit being that it's all in one with no configuration needed; one unit includes panel, app menu, and window manager that work out of the box.


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inatreecrown2 • today at 6:27 AM

I use it as my main desktop for audio work.

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dead_hn_theory • today at 7:30 AM

> treating this as a blast from the past.

Well, for most of us it is.

fasterik • today at 7:58 AM

Why is it bemusing because you happen to have a use case for it? It's a 30 year old piece of software that only supports X11, which is itself rapidly becoming legacy software.

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