The beauty and terror of modding Windows
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The beauty and terror of modding Windows
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Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#2I gave up modding windows in any meaningful way after the several times I was left with a machine which was unstable, or had some other issue, or simply became 100% broken after a windows update was pushed to my machine.
It's a corporate operating system, not a user operating system. If you want to customise your desktop experience and have a stable time of it - this is not your platform, sorry. There is really only one platform for customisation: linux. Because distros and software there have been _designed_ around user choice.
Hacks are cool, but inevitably open up vulnerability pathways, not to mention issues with stability and being able to receive security patches, rolled into windows update. It's fine if it's just a personal pc you can reload at any point, but it's pointless for a machine that you require to keep functioning (eg a work machine, or, my personal machine, which does stuff like organise media on a regular basis).
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#3>If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities
TIL those exist (genuinely).
I’ve never met anyone who likes windows, just people who put up with it for work/gaming and people who doesn’t care about the whole thing enough to move from the default (which is totally understandable).
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#4Never heard of Windhawk.
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#5If you want tweaks that are a little more first party, there's always PowerToys https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
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#6Speaking of modding desktop environments, has anyone figured out how to get back the old border radius in macOS Tahoe?
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#7>If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities TIL those exist (genuinely). I’ve never met anyone who likes windows, just people who put up with it for work/gaming and people who doesn’t care about the whole thing enough to move from the default (which is totally understandable).
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Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#8If you want tweaks that are a little more first party, there's always PowerToys https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
There are genuinely some great power toys available.
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#9I’ve been using WindHawk for a bit, and my favourite mods have been:
- Slick Window Arrangement (better window snapping): https://windhawk.net/mods/slick-window-arrangement
- Better file sizes in Explorer details: https://windhawk.net/mods/explorer-details-better-file-sizes
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#10>If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities TIL those exist (genuinely). I’ve never met anyone who likes windows, just people who put up with it for work/gaming and people who doesn’t care about the whole thing enough to move from the default (which is totally understandable).
There are probably more Windows enthusiasts than there are Linux enthusiasts in absolute numbers.