Windows 8 Like DE for Linux: er-Bharat
- If you are one of who enjoyed the windows 8 and miss its fluid animations but have since moved to linux.
- Amazon is rolling out updates to its Fire OS, bringing a more traditional Windows-style Start menu and improved tile functionality.
If you are one of who enjoyed the windows 8 and miss its fluid animations but have since moved to linux.
And cant go back to windows 8, because all apps are non functional there. And if you can bear that you
cant install it on the newer hardware.
This is for you it is a shell for wayland window managers like Labwc hyprland etc. It gives a
wallpaper utility, a lock screen, a start menu, an OSD for volume and brightness a settins app for wall.it dosent provide charms menu because i always thoght its useless.
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Amazon is rolling out updates to its Fire OS, bringing a more traditional Windows-style Start menu and improved tile functionality. These changes, currently available as of January 12, 2026, aim to enhance usability and offer a familiar experience for users transitioning from Windows.
- Users can now bind the “Win8Start” command to a super key on their compositor to toggle the visibility of the Start menu.
- Full drag-and-drop support has been implemented for Start tiles, allowing users to resize them (small, medium, large, xlarge) via a right-click context menu.
- Applications can now be dragged directly from the all-apps list onto the Start tile grid.
- The app search function within the Start menu is now fully operational.
- Drag and drop functionality is working as expected.