Expecting this to be continuously possible on a proprietary OS is a lost cause. Even the LLM world has practically mirrored this.
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
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Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#12Not being able to customise my environment is a dealbreaker for me. I will be converting my day to day machine to Linux rather than being nagged into a user hostile OS upgrade. Clearly Microsoft has given up on powerusers, the people who notice and sometimes fix flaws in their monolith. Seems shortsighted.
Annoying how previous abilities are also being removed e.g. docking the windows start bar vertically on the side of the screen is no longer allowed in Windows 11, but is possible on Windows Server and Windows 10
Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#13Extract from Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere by Raymond Chen. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230324-00/?p=10... > What happened is that we recently made changes to this internal function, and apparently those changes were enough to cause the patcher to go haywire. This is unfortunately a regular occurrence: Whenever a new build…
Yet the root cause is Microsoft breaking compatibility with user expectations. That program their computer-savvy nephew installed for them? It was installed because Microsoft decided that it would be fine for aunty to re-learn everything. Likely because everybody with a say on the design team is using Macs.
Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#14Extract from Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere by Raymond Chen. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230324-00/?p=10... > What happened is that we recently made changes to this internal function, and apparently those changes were enough to cause the patcher to go haywire. This is unfortunately a regular occurrence: Whenever a new build…
From that same post: > The interesting thing here was how the program decided where to install its patches, and in particular how it managed to patch an function that was never exported or stored in a vtable: It found the function by contacting the Microsoft symbol server to get the names of all the functions in Explorer and their addresses! I don't think anyone would make a program do hacky binary patching like that…
Frankly, if you want to customize windows, write your own shell instead patching a closed source binary. At the very least, crc before you patch.
Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#15Extract from Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere by Raymond Chen. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230324-00/?p=10... > What happened is that we recently made changes to this internal function, and apparently those changes were enough to cause the patcher to go haywire. This is unfortunately a regular occurrence: Whenever a new build…
That doesn't jibe with the fix being just simply to rename the executables. If they actually were flawed, renaming them wouldn't remove the flaw...
How do you know renaming them removes the flaw? All we know is that Taras Buria (or their sources) didn't encounter any crashes when they tried it, but not all correctness bugs are immediately obvious.
Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#16Not being able to customise my environment is a dealbreaker for me. I will be converting my day to day machine to Linux rather than being nagged into a user hostile OS upgrade. Clearly Microsoft has given up on powerusers, the people who notice and sometimes fix flaws in their monolith. Seems shortsighted.
What kept you on their platform this long if you don’t mind my asking?
Not OP, but in my case it's Visual Studio. It's just the best IDE for me, and I have literally decades of muscle memory using it.
I first tried Linux sometime in the late 90s, and this might finally be the year I switch over. I do everything else in a Linux VM now, may as well run Linux as host and Windows as a VM.
Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#17Not being able to customise my environment is a dealbreaker for me. I will be converting my day to day machine to Linux rather than being nagged into a user hostile OS upgrade. Clearly Microsoft has given up on powerusers, the people who notice and sometimes fix flaws in their monolith. Seems shortsighted.
What kept you on their platform this long if you don’t mind my asking?
Not OP, but compatibility, familiarity and inertia.
also my initial choice for a Linux os that I daily drove back in uni, became infested with snap packages which I've had numerous issues with.
(This is not an invite for anyone to tell me about Arch or "$x distro is clearly best", I've settled with pop_os for trials)
Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#18Not being able to customise my environment is a dealbreaker for me. I will be converting my day to day machine to Linux rather than being nagged into a user hostile OS upgrade. Clearly Microsoft has given up on powerusers, the people who notice and sometimes fix flaws in their monolith. Seems shortsighted.
How good is running Windows in a VM with a Linux host nowadays? Does it work well for office users who want to run Office? How about people who want to run Adobe or Autodesk software? These use cases seem to be causing the most friction for the transition in my circles (apart from gaming, which is a different story).
Re: Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
#19Not being able to customise my environment is a dealbreaker for me. I will be converting my day to day machine to Linux rather than being nagged into a user hostile OS upgrade. Clearly Microsoft has given up on powerusers, the people who notice and sometimes fix flaws in their monolith. Seems shortsighted.
How good is running Windows in a VM with a Linux host nowadays? Does it work well for office users who want to run Office? How about people who want to run Adobe or Autodesk software? These use cases seem to be causing the most friction for the transition in my circles (apart from gaming, which is a different story).
VMWare works really well for me, as do Proton and Lutris for Linux gaming. That said, I'm a software developer so not a typical user.
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#20Windows? Oh I'd forgotten about that giggles behind Linux desktop