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Anyone have a good “Push to Talk” utility for windows? This PowerTools has something close but not exactly what I’m looking for. I’ve gotten used to PTT in apps like Ventrilo / Discord and hate having to constantly unmute / remute in Teams.
Anyone have a good “Push to Talk” utility for windows? This PowerTools has something close but not exactly what I’m looking for. I’ve gotten used to PTT in apps like Ventrilo / Discord and hate having to constantly unmute / remute in Teams.
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Instead we get “Paint 3D”, “Mixed Reality Portal”, and “Your Phone”. Absolute essentials that I’m certain are chart-toppers in the telemetry activity charts.
I'd guess Your Phone is a direct response to iMessage on MacOS. It'd be more useful if it worked with any messaging app that was running on my phone though!
These are great, but with some of them I cannot help but wonder why MSFT would choose not to include them in the OS by default. They seem fairly unobtrusive and like they wouldn't add too much complexity to the product in return for what you get in terms of better usability and/or additional functionality. Of course you could argue that you always have to be very careful not to overload and bloat your software produc…
are they features that were planned but then abandoned?
do developers at microsoft have the autonomy to build features they personally find interesting while on the clock?
do they come from hackathon like events?
do they now all come through a dedicated team?
I use PowerToys just for the easy key remapping, which I wish was a built-in feature in more keyboards. Works very nicely as a simple alternative to AutoHotKey. My RSI has gotten a lot better by just remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl. If any PowerToys feature deserves to be added to Windows, it's gotta be the Keyboard Manager.
In the meantime I’ll stick with AutoHotkey.
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support costs for a trillion dollar company, sure if they can't do it, i know lot of people who would do it for the same salary they are getting over there at MSFT lazy culture, how long it took them to add tabs to explorer? hmm
given the approx. millions of configurations they already support, adding more is always a cost-benefit analysis. personally if I was a developer of this I wouldn't want it anywhere near the gold release... it'd take all the fun away and you'd have to give up development to some team you haven't heard about in the next cost optimization cycle (Real Soon Now(TM))
Fancy Zones makes my day-to-day so much more convenient. I wish there was an equivalent in Linux that worked as well - I’ve tried a few gnome plugins but always been disappointed.
Probably not exactly what you're looking for but i3 could be worth checking out. It's a tiling window manager with a powerful customization/scripting interface and it has a feature to save and restore window layouts. There's also Sway which is similar but based on Wayland though it does not have the save/restore feature. Granted they might not be as easy to set up as installing PowerToys on Windows if you have specif…
PowerToys Run is fantastic as an app launcher. Not quite as good as Alfred on MacOS but then nothing is. There's a bunch of similar apps for Windows (I used to use Hain) but none ever worked quite right for me, PowerToys Run does though. FancyZones is awfully nice too for just putting a window somewhere at a reasonable size and location. As other folks have noted SysInternals is another similar rogue Windows product…
"How to make your Windows more like MacOS" Hopefully Microsoft sees the writing on the wall and includes these in an update, instead of being stubborn and pretending that they have had a reason to exclude them all this time.
Do you really think that enterprise and large business (the meat and potatoes of MS money) is going to switch to Mac because it's missing some utility that 99% of users don't need? I don't know what fuckin planet you people live on. Microsoft is a business oriented ecosystem. The fact that you can play call of duty on it is a bonus.
Do they have to pay attention to it? No. Will it help improve their OS as a daily driver for non enterprise users? Sure.