I feel really stupid to ask , but can I install this on Windows.

MayeulC · on March 24, 2021

Not sure about Gnome, but one used to be able to install KDE on windows https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-kde-in-windows/

IIRC even KDE plasma worked. But these days there are a few KDE apps on the microsoft store or on kde.org.

Even if you could install that on windows (compiling everythong with cygwin?), it wouldn't really be windows, mind you.

iulian_r · on March 24, 2021

You can only install this on windows in a VM (like Virtual Box). You also can't install it directly, you would need a Linux distribution as well. It would be easier to wait until Ubuntu or Fedora releases a new version which contains this version of GNOME. Desktop Environments on Linux are basically GUI themes.

EarthIsHome · on March 24, 2021

Not only are they GUI themes, some desktop environments come packaged with different utility software. (e.g. Gnome comes with GTK-based utility software like Gedit, and KDE comes with KDE-based utility software like Kwrite.

offtop5 · on March 24, 2021

Has anyone ever made a Windows gui them. I need the functionality of windows, but I much tire of the way Windows looks now

sagarm · on March 28, 2021

Yes, alternative shells for Windows used to exist. Back in the ME days I used Litestep:

http://litestep.net/

No idea if they still work.

go561192 · on March 24, 2021

Maybe this is what you are looking for?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/windowsthe...

ht_th · on March 24, 2021

Yes, sort of. Use WSL2 and a Xserver like https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/ that runs on Windows.

offtop5 · on March 24, 2021

Any way to get it to run Windows applications. Would it be possible to build something like that