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Wow. Could be an interesting game. Could also be an interesting learning tool. It's a shame that it probably wouldn't be ported to Linux though.

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It could trivially be built for Linux if the author decided to (or released the code). But it's also more of a tech demo than a real utility; there's no indication it runs any existing GUI applications.

It's not supposed to be a a real utility, or run real applications! It's intended for use in computer games; there's several such games that use a virtual "OS" as their framing device and core interface.

I missed that part in the text

I honestly think it's more interesting as:

- A demonstration of what's possible within Unity (it's extremely impressive, because Unity's built-in GUI system is pretty terrible and it's clear that there's some level of composability, etc. to the UI system being demonstrated)

- An experiment in creating a totally virtual, cross-platform (gorgeous) desktop environment within a single app that could be trivially run on any OS

But of course it's still a long way from the latter, if someone even wanted to take it that direction

Wine?

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