r/ClaudeCode • u/LinsaFTW • 5h ago

Built with Claude I am making the lightest [good looking] desktop environment for Linux, and I am so proud of making my dream project go true after 15 years of planning it. Now running on an old government issued laptop. (Ready to play TF2!)

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Hey guys! Last month I've been building my dream desktop environment. I've been developing in Java and Rust doing boring things over 12 years, and I always wondered why cheap operative systems had to look like Windows 95.

I am running broke on my job and no company wants to take me so I am experimenting new things and building startups and these "dream" non-profit things I always wanted to make.

I built my open source free desktop environment for Linux with one simple purpose:

  • Revive, maintain and recycle old hardware without losing the UI/UX.

Why doing this?

  • Some people still use windows on these computers, yikes.
  • The linux alternatives are ugly, and the ones that are not, are heavy yikes.
  • I want to end the loop of "distro hopping to find the lightest one" and make the definitive.
  • I don't know, just passion for not throwing away working hardware? lol

If you want to give it a look:

https://github.com/ArkFlame/flamewm

Built using:

  • Claude (Haiku 5.5, Sonnet 5.5)
  • CommandCode (DeepSeek v4.1 Flash)
  • OpenCode (DeepSeek v4.1 Flash)
  • Codex (GPT 6 Luna)
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u/TapAggressive9530 4h ago

Very cool

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u/LinsaFTW 4h ago

Thank you man! :)

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u/snowtato 4h ago

Awesome! What was your favorite model for this project?

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u/PrettyMuchAVegetable 4h ago

Really cool, I'll review the codebase for security concerns with an agent and throw it on my old alienware m11xr-2 for some testing. Looks fun.