Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2

Post by philistine » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 10:34 AM UTC

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It's because the Windows 11 UI was designed by people who've never used anything other that an Apple Mac. Yes, Microsoft hires employees with zero Windows experience to design their operating system. That's why the Windows 11 taskbar has the icons centred -- because Apple OSX does too. That's why there's no way to drag the taskbar around -- because Apple OSX doesn't allow this either. Etc...

Apple and Microsoft are competing on who can make the worst UX in the desktop arena. Window management is so bad in osx and I refuse to pay for add-ons to make things slightly better when Linux and the small galaxy of window managers have been doing it so well, and for free, for literally decades.

Post by philistine » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 10:48 AM UTC

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Contrast this with the "old" Apple in 2005/6, I could write a game, put it up for download as a DMG file You still can? The binary has to be notarized, but Apple doesn’t take a cut, you can run your own store and sell a game. For example, hooking into the kernel is now very difficult - apps like Little Snitch running on Sonoma have a much harder job. For most people that’s a good thing. I had many family members that…

> You still can? The binary has to be notarized, but Apple doesn’t take a cut, you can run your own store and sell a game. Yes, however the binary did not have to be signed back then - and I didn't need to pay apple for the privilege of writing software for their OS. > Also, about little snitch specifically, obdev now sells are more user-friendly version in the App Store that uses the new user space filtering API. An…

Post by 7bit » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 10:52 AM UTC

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> Maybe I'm too old, but since when is simply using another software as opposed to built-ins considered modding? Most of these seem like replacements to me. ExplorerPatcher /is/ modding. It's not killing explorer.exe and launching another UI that is independent from the os like, say, what blackbox for windows or litestep did. It's patching running executables in memory in a way that could break whenever any data stru…

> You surely don't expect this to survive all future refactorings and cleanups? The Win10 bar code has been there, since October 2021, though? I don't know how frequent refactorings are (at M$FT) but given it's been there for nigh three years, I don't see how that's a relevant factor. Even _if_ it were refactored (and/or cleaned-up), it wouldn't be omitted from the release notes, right? Unless it's on the roadmap _fo…

Post by iAkashPaul » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 11:00 AM UTC

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Expecting this to be continuously possible on a proprietary OS is a lost cause. Even the LLM world has practically mirrored this.

It was possible for literal decades, what are you going on about?

Post by ykonstant » Sat, Apr 06, 2024, 11:08 AM UTC

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Steam/Valve made a point of running Windows games under Linux as good or better as under.Windows. that is, Wine and Proton are really good these days. Running genuine MS Windows® in a VM is very possible but much less necessary than, say, 10 years ago, if you want to run some non-esoteric Windows software. It also technically requires a license.

They asked about Office, Adobe, and Autodesk. I’d say the situation is still the opposite there. In the early 00s, you could run Microsoft Office etc. pretty well with CrossOver Office and the likes. But these applications barely work anymore if at all, most likely because their complexity increased a lot over the years. Using a Windows VM is a pretty good solution. Though last time I tried only commercial solutions…