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This is so neat looking. Is there an equivalent for MacOS?
Not exactly afaik, but I've recently been going to System Settings > Accessibility > Display, and turning on: Increase contrast Reduce transparency Differentiate without color Show toolbar button shapes https://imgur.com/a/DqfN07k I like the retro and simple vibe compared to the new Liquid Glass controls.
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Not exactly alt-tab but it’s a ui-less immediate switcher (snappy af, zero latency) to switch between windows of the same app with alt-backtick (next to escape), originally a macOS feature: https://neosmart.net/EasySwitch/ (Backwards navigation with alt-shift-backtick)
Thank you. Actually the registry entry on 24H2 behaves somewhat similarly: alt-tab still switches windows (of all apps) but the UI is just gone (which is a problem for me because knowing how much time I need to press tab in advance leads to faster switching than "press tab, see if the focused window is what I wanted, and press tab again if it's not" which involves a computer-brain round trip every key press).
(As a dev, I often have a dozen browser windows and a dozen or more terminals open, half a dozen IDEs, etc so being able to switch directly between instances if the same app, esp automatically filtering out minimized ones, is much faster than alt-tabbing through then all interleaved, and was my motivation for writing this.)
I wish there was a "power user" mode in Windows that you could activate and you'd get the ability to have classic themes (my MS themselves), classic Control Panel, no constant nudging, no weather/Xbox/Solitaire apps, etc...
They tried that during the Chicago development and discarded the idea due to multiple problems with how humans work. Two different UIs meant that you had to learn them separately, you didn't have a slow ramp from one to the other, one familiar with one could get stuck on the other with no knowledge of how to get back, divided efforts between the two, etc. Not quite what you are asking for, but closer to Win95 shippin…
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I've come across Windhawk before but the mods being just C++ programs seemed a little suspicious to me, how do you make sure the mods dont include malware?
Windhawk mods are distributed as source code and WH itself compiles it. It works the same way usescripts work with tampermonkey/violentmonkey on browsers. If a mod includes malware it'll be very obvious as mods are usually small.
It's incredible the effort Windows 10/11 users will go to in order to reach a somewhat functional and reliable computing experience via third party modifications, yet Linux is somehow too much effort. Just look at the instructions on that page..
Can't speak for this product but disabling a lot of the animations, gradients, shadows & visual effects has made Windows 11 run significantly better on the computers I have it on. They didn't seem to add much value anyways. I'm a fan of a lot of the user experience improvements being made in Windows over the last decade, such as Terminal, running Linux, Power Toys features, screenshots & recording, Paint finally gett…
It's incredible the effort Windows 10/11 users will go to in order to reach a somewhat functional and reliable computing experience via third party modifications, yet Linux is somehow too much effort. Just look at the instructions on that page..
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Not exactly afaik, but I've recently been going to System Settings > Accessibility > Display, and turning on: Increase contrast Reduce transparency Differentiate without color Show toolbar button shapes https://imgur.com/a/DqfN07k I like the retro and simple vibe compared to the new Liquid Glass controls.
Ah! Thank you! Even on Sequoia this is a massive improvement!
Can't speak for this product but disabling a lot of the animations, gradients, shadows & visual effects has made Windows 11 run significantly better on the computers I have it on. They didn't seem to add much value anyways. I'm a fan of a lot of the user experience improvements being made in Windows over the last decade, such as Terminal, running Linux, Power Toys features, screenshots & recording, Paint finally gett…
Instead they can throw away their perfectly good computer and buy the confusion as a single package! Relax, the climate can take it!