Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

neowin.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

161–166 of 166 posts

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

#161

Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

bitwize wrote: post #156
zelphirkalt wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, how many GNU/Linux desktop environments allow you to do that easily, while being developed by a handful of people, while MS has probably hordes of people working on the UI of Windows. They just don't seem to get it or have complelety incapable UI/UX designers or something.

It's because Microsoft has OKRs to hit that have nothing to do with UI customizability or even giving users what they want. I realized this in the 90s. Windows 9x, theoretically, should never have existed. I knew this because a DOS subsystem with great speed and compatibility, DOSEMU, existed for Linux. You could play Doom with sound at full speed in DOSEMU on contemporary Pentium hardware. If the open source communi…

Windows 9x was significantly lower in resource requirements than NT (mostly from memory, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95#System_requirements / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0#System_requirem... seems to agree). I'd 100% believe that MS was going for market segmentation, but I don't think it was just leaving out DOS compat.

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

#162

Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

krimskrams wrote: post #90

After having used Windows for over 20 years (XP to 10), I decided to switch to Linux a year and a half ago and I'm happy for it. The requirement for a Microsoft Account and nonsensical UI changes requiring more clicks to reach the settings I want was annoying but not a deal breaker at first. Microsoft has also been trying to make Windows more like MacOS, or a mobile tablet, since Windows 8 which I don't like. What re…

I did the same recently. I never stopped using linux, I used it only for work though. i saw Windows 11 which is less and less for power users, to the point of going against it.

2 weeks ago I installed Kubuntu on a second nvme SSD in my gaming desktop and I discovered that: working on a desktop is so much more pleasant and working on Kubuntu satisfies all my needs except gaming.

BUT since I got a steam deck, I have been playing mostly there anyway. And yes steam deck is linux too.

I tried and fought enough with macOS, Windows is betraying their own users and not having bash is frustrating. so here we go, full linux.

My children first OS is going to be Kubuntu, let's see how it goes

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

#163

Post by Narishma »

pacifika wrote: post #69
jiggawatts wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I thought it was centered to better support ultra widescreen users

So they make it worse for everyone else to support a minority of users?

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

#164

Post by withinrafael »

josephcsible wrote: post #151
withinrafael wrote: post #30

There are plenty of reasons to skewer Microsoft, but this isn't one of them. Microsoft isn't blocking all customization apps here, of course. They're blocking known [1][2] unreliable, poorly written, high crash rate software that is extremely sensitive to OS changes, hotfixes, and/or upgrades due to the nature of the software (e.g. hooking functions, patching memory, etc). The block is geared towards a specific revis…

Is there any evidence that the software is actually poorly written? Isn't the only reason they use undocumented/unstable hacks that Microsoft refuses to provide a documented or stable way of doing what they want to do?

I linked to the GitHub issue tracker and a documented instance of the software preventing users from booting up Windows.

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

#165

Post by cinntaile »

ryanjshaw wrote: post #45
cinntaile wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use Visual Studio on Linux, I would assume you can configure it to use the same hotkeys as on Windows but I'm not sure.

Are you maybe thinking of VS Code? I'm talking about its parent: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

Yes, my bad.
Post reply on HN