News [OMG! Ubuntu] This dev’s personal website is a working GNOME 2 desktop

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Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, rounded glassy cards and monospaced datapoints (the ‘vibe-coded website’ aesthetic everywhere right now). No, it’s an interactive GNOME 2 ‘desktop’. He built it after digesting an essay on how websites used to be weird and playful and unique. Looking at his own site, he decided it wasn’t nearly wacky enough, so restyled it to […]

Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/website-as-gnome-2-desktop

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