Frontend for AOL that looks like regular desktop AOL but without all the ads and popups. If only because it's something I doubt anyone would make before the EOL of Windows 10.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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Maybe meta, but a linux installer for windows that works just like a normal installer on windows. You download the .exe, double click it, it opens a wizard you can walk though, and by the end of the process, after it reboots, you're in a linux distro.
You know what, it could also be for linux, when I think about it... not everybody wants to write on a flash drive, reboot, run through installation, reboot.
The original idea is that non-technical users don't know what an "OS" is. They might search for "windows alternative", "windows replacement", "linux installer" (if they heard of linux), and so on without knowing it's an OS. If they could download something that installed "the linux app" without having to know about partitions, flashing a USB stick, MBR vs UEFI, distros, etc. it could make things much much easier.
- distro: which flavor of linux would you like (as stable as possible)? gaming (bazzite), productivity (ubuntu), bleeding edge (debian sid?), design, development, expert, security, ...
- desktop environment: look and feel? more like MacOS (gnome), more like windows 7,8,10 (KDE), more like XP (LXDE, LXQt), Windows 98 feel (XfCE, ....)
- probably other things, but maybe that's all non-techies care about
The installer could have warnings for configurations e.g "you have an NVIDIA card $model, this has known issues with your display manager (Wayland), would you like to select automatic fix?".
A modern UI for ClamAV or a Subsonic Music Streaming client (In gtk4)
A utility to map extruded lines/objects/shapes to STL files. For example, say you have an STL of a curved vase. You want to add a spiral to it. So you place the photo of a spiral on the object. The utility lets you decide where on the STL it'll be placed, then you can decide the extrusion depth (positive or negative).
Possibly including some type of LLM, too. So you can import your STL, then type something like "picture of the Simpsons in the style of ancient Greek amphora vase paintings." It'll appear as line art on the 3D object
Note that I don't need this, myself. You want to work on something interesting, so I thought for a few minutes and came up with this. :)
How about a Linux (or even multi platform) version of Stereoscopic Player?