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Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)

submitted 7 months ago by quantumcog to c/technology

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TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2.

One more reason to switch to Linux

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Why is Microsoft trying to shoot itself in the foot once again? One of the big reasons I like Windows more than MacOS is the customizability. When your market share is declining, you shouldn't add more reasons to switch to something else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you like customizability,vwhy not try Linux with KDE? It's the definition of customizability.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Joke's on you I have a desktop running KDE Neon

Seriously though, I'm not even that big into customizability, I just like having a taskbar with icons and some critical statuses (battery percentages anyone? Even Apple learned their lesson on that one.) on any side of the screen, and I like having good versatile touchpad gestures, achievable on GNOME with a couple extensions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Currently needing to run Windows 11 on my laptop, not by choice basically by light force of wifi drivers as I need wifi for my daily workload and dumb MediaTek have not great Linux support, there is a small in works dkms GitHub repo but that's it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Windows 11 development was led by the UI team that led Windows 8, and a team responsible for more of the internal Windows development was responsible for Windows 10. You can kind of tell by Windows 11 being an arbitrary UI change with numerous regressions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

What they are doing has that upside of being an indicator of "how many people are really held by the balls with MS hand". MS "shoots itself in the foot" and Windows users just eat it, then it can do more.

When you are a monopolist (or a bully, or a robber baron), this makes sense.