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Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by __del__ » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 7:16 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #63

blacklion wrote: post #60

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`LD_PRELOAD` works on UNIX-like systems too.

Thanks to LD_PRELOAD you could downgrade tons of OpenGL effects and enforce some settings for high end games and make them playable with good speeds on legacy systems. Also to force texture sizes and whatnot. I wish Wine/Proton had options for those, to override antialising, texture sizes, rendering resolution and everything.

that's an interesting pursuit. we've got the code, or at least we've got the stubs calling windows dlls.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by perching_aix » Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 12:21 AM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #139

perching_aix wrote: post #119

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The intent sure comes through (despite your attempts to conceal it), the reasoning doesn't. And it continues not to, not the least because of the desire for superiority relentlessly taking over you, muddying your rationale with persistent smug mockery and creative interpretations. So unfortunately no, I'll have to kindly refuse your request to respect all this.

> (despite your attempts to conceal it) Huh? I am very open about what I like and why.

I was assuming malice and got bent out of shape over that, apologies. Looks like I need a break more than I care to admit.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by blacklion » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 2:02 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #64

blacklion wrote: post #61

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Adobe products, for example. Or any of other of miriad of other products which have only Win/MacOS and no Linux support. And, no, Wine cannot run anything. You see, I don't need OS at all, I need applications. Some of these applications are "universal" (FireFox, for example), some has good equivalents, and some are unique to OS. And, no, DarkTable, or RAW Therappe are not equivalent to Lightroom or Capture One. And n…

MPD + advanced clients pown foobar 2000 anytime. Also, Audacious, Strayberry... Audacious with audacious-plugins could play anything (even video game music files) and it still has ProjectM plugins' support.

When I've tried MPD last time (about 2 years ago, to be honest) it failed to play wv.iso format, and I have this abomination in my collection.

Also, it is not very good with broken tags, MP3 tags in local codepages (different for different albums!), etc.

You cannot imagine what can be seen in the wild when it is musical collection started in 1995!

Heck, I'm downloading mpd for windows right now and I'll try to add my collection into it. But I'm not holding my breath, all previous attempts to import my collection in any software failed for 15-20% of collection (different ones for different software).

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by blacklion » Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 3:25 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #64

blacklion wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adobe products, for example. Or any of other of miriad of other products which have only Win/MacOS and no Linux support. And, no, Wine cannot run anything. You see, I don't need OS at all, I need applications. Some of these applications are "universal" (FireFox, for example), some has good equivalents, and some are unique to OS. And, no, DarkTable, or RAW Therappe are not equivalent to Lightroom or Capture One. And n…

MPD + advanced clients pown foobar 2000 anytime. Also, Audacious, Strayberry... Audacious with audacious-plugins could play anything (even video game music files) and it still has ProjectM plugins' support.

Nope, UI for mpd shows that there is 11093 albums in my collection, but first several screens of Albums is all sequences of `?`. Very useful. Number itself doesn't looks right, my estimation is at least half of this number, maybe less.

On the other hand same client shows only 6391 files, which is waaaay to small number if 1 file = 1 track. Ok, there is a lot of image + CUE albums, I wonder, is it 2 files or one?

So it is useless, unfortunately. foobar2000 allows me add folder / file set to playlist and start listening. With system "Artist/Year - Album" on the file system it is easy and convenient. Tags could be broken, but all mys music is here and I always know where to look for what I want to listen now.