GNUstep
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5recommend
1warn against
Jan 4, 2026first mention
Mar 19, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It's a shame GNUstep never took off”
“Also, https://www.gnustep.org/”
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“IMHO this should have been (something along the lines of) GNUstep + TimBL's original code”
“the results are a 20 minute build on low powered raspberry pi”
switched from Qton “Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment base…”
Caveats and dissent
“They only seem to care about #1 and regard points 2-4 as annoying distractions.”
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Data: gnustep.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 12
“It's a shame GNUstep never took off”
“Also, https://www.gnustep.org/”
You can already run nextstep in browser, see https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/ (section "Back to 1992")
“IMHO this should have been (something along the lines of) GNUstep + TimBL's original code”
“just use GNUstep pretty much directly”
“you can use Objective-C on non-Apple platforms [1] and with Cocoa APIs courtesy of the GNUstep project [2]”
“working on GNUstep integration for this browser”
“play around with GNUStep integration”
“the results are a 20 minute build on low powered raspberry pi”
“let us be the desktop, let them be the core libs”
“They only seem to care about #1 and regard points 2-4 as annoying distractions.”
“The GTK theme engine from GNUstep can also be used to set a”