Fractal
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Proper consumer apps like:”
“I use fractal and a self-hosted server and it works great.”
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“I also liked the fractal gnu app”
“Similiar native applications integrate much better and use a fraction of memory (e.g. Fractal).”
Caveats and dissent
“I think I tried Fractal and whatever KDE was working on and neither was polished at the time of use.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
Hi everyone, Joseph (paper author) here. You can find Fractal on Github: https://github.com/jprx/fractal The full paper, slides from my S&P talk, and all our experiment data can be found at the Fractal project website here: https://fractal-os.com We've been building Fractal internally for a very long time (first commit was almost exactly 2 years ago), so it's exciting to finally share it with the world. Let me know w
“We built https://usefractal.dev/ to make it easier for people to build ChatGPT Apps”
“Full disclosure, I'm partial here because of our work at https://usefractal.dev.”
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Also written as fractal. Data: fractal.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“On desktop I use Fractal but it still misses some fairly major features like spaces and threads.”
“Fractal probably comes as close to it tbh”
“I think I tried Fractal and whatever KDE was working on and neither was polished at the time of use.”
“Fractal and the matrix element fork called schildichat are interesting as well”
a boot program that happens to be unix-like, have a libc, tools like binutils, coreutils, dash, vim, gcc and a GUI have a filesystem, userspace, peripheral support... https://github.com/jprx/fractal
“Proper consumer apps like:”
“back when I used to use fractal”
“I use fractal and a self-hosted server and it works great.”
“I also liked the fractal gnu app”
“Similiar native applications integrate much better and use a fraction of memory (e.g. Fractal).”