Microsoft Windows 95 is the much popular windows in 90's. There could be very few who doesn't use windows 95. Unfortunately I am one of them 😜. Yeah..!!! when my dad bought our 1st PC it came with windows 98 pre-installed. But it feels nostalgic to work on such a systems like windows 95 or 98. I was in 2nd standard back then when I first time touched computer. From then I used 2000, NT, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10.
Whatever, Now I am started working on Ubuntu and I found something interesting project in GitHub. Yeah..!! Now you can run windows 95 on Linux machine.
Windows 95 is available as Electron app and it runs quite well on Mac OS, Windows and Linux operating systems. So, If you are nostalgic about windows 95, then you should definitely try this out.
Here Is The Steps to Install Windows 95 in Linux:
Download the app, run the latest version from the releases page. It is available in zip, rpm and deb format.
After installation of this app, Run following command for RPM-based system.
$ sudo rpm -Uvh windows95-1.1.0x86_64.rpm
On Debian-like systems, Use following command:
$ sudo apt install gdebi
$ sudo gdebi windows95_1.1.0_amd.deb
Once Installed, You can run it from terminal:
$ sudo windows95
Or From The Application Launcher:
This Is How Windows 95 Startup wizard looks exactly. Click on Start Windows 95
Hit ESC to lock or unlock the mouse. You can also insert floppy disk with .img format.
There are 3 buttons at bottom for 'Reset Machine & Delete State', 'Insert Floppy', and 'Discard Change and Boot From Scratch'.
Here You Go, This is how Windows 95 will look like in your ubuntu machine:
Feeling Nostalgic..??
Yeah Me Too..!!
Go ahead play some games, run your favourite windows programs and have a fun.
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