https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-re...
[1] - https://openrgb.org/
shill verb: 2 : to act as a spokesperson or promoter "the eminent Shakespearean producer … is now shilling for a brokerage house" — Andy Rooney
shill noun: 1b : one who makes a sales pitch or serves as a promoter
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shill
If you're going to choose to be pedantic, it helps to read the entire definition, and not just paste in the top result from DDG's "define shill"
So I installed Explorer patcher to get the old taskbar back https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Other than that the only feature of 11 that I have used is the snap zones. And I guess if I want that I can install the power toy it is based on.
"Either the user controls the software, or the software controls the users":
The only games that I really ever struggle with are ones that have anticheat. And EasyAntiCheat is going linux friendly so something like 95 of the top 100 games on steam will either work natively or via proton.
And with Valve pushing the SteamDeck is see that number going to 100 soon.
The github page still says it requires Windows 11: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
Though I suppose it's possible they've also pushed it to the insider builds for Windows 10.
Removing or redesigning the Control Panel would break third-party apps that rely on the existing structure; Raymond Chen's blog[0] has mentioned apps doing this.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/07/19/extend...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/shortcu...
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/127365#issuecomme...
How did this anticompetitive BS ever get the greenlight from legal?
According to Microsoft's documentation[0], the microsoft-edge:// scheme opens the edge browser and navigates to the specified URL.
If what is claimed in the article is implemented, it will provide a way to bypass the default browser setting. The system will launch edge even if you set another browser as your default web browser, bringing the problem of leaking MS account information that comes with the edge.
[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/l...
[0]: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/don%27t+let+perfect+be+...
Ableton Live 10 works fine though, I played around with it for a while before switching to Bitwig (which has a native Linux build), and I really didn't have any complaints besides the CPU usage being marginally higher than native Windows. I haven't tried it recently either, so the situation may well have improved.
EDIT: just reinstalled my copy of Live 11, it works out-of-the-box with WINE installed and no configuration.
I can't go around making claims that it's perfect, but it's pretty damn close. You may as well see for yourself, all the software (WINE, Linux, etc) is free.
[0] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
Serious question: why didn't they just do this in the first place? It can't be hard to check if the user has a touch input and dynamically resize buttons / list items, then size them back down when the user is done. They do exactly this for "Tablet mode"[0] in Windows 10.
This, and the pitch black dark mode that honestly looks dreadful on non-OLED, makes me think they don't really take customisation into much consideration.
[0]: https://www.howtogeek.com/221973/what-is-tablet-mode-in-wind...
This is not for http://, https://, file:// links. This is specifically for microsoft-edge:// links, which I've never seen.
I think this applies only for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).
I'm wondering how many of the commentators here have actual read the article.
Honestly, from what I've seen many people don't see the issue with this. "The code is public anyway, so what difference does it make?"
I'm starting to see the downsides of that viewpoint now, though[0]. If GitHub, and by extension Microsoft, technically 'own' the code (licensing, etc.) then they have free reign over it, leading to things like Copilot and Intellicode.
[0]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201
It makes using fusion on wine really easy, and it runs surprisingly well too.
And if MS would want to play it rough and start blocking hook DLLs with permission barriers, make this API patcher a kernel module.
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker-on-windows-11-wi...
I've been using 7taskbar for years, it's rock solid. ExplorerPatcher is a new requirement, works great and adds tons of features.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18150284
> As a vocal critic of the Linux Desktop, even I feel that soon Microsoft will have succeeded in making Windows so horrifically awful and user-hostile that the Linux Desktop will start to look good by comparison.
- AlienFX (https://github.com/trackmastersteve/alienfx): Control Alienware lighting effects on Linux
- rivalcfg (https://github.com/flozz/rivalcfg): CLI tool and Python library to configure Steelseries mice on Linux
- RazerGenie (https://github.com/z3ntu/RazerGenie): Configure Razer devices on Linux, uses OpenRazer
- OpenRazer (https://openrazer.github.io): FOSS driver and userspace daemon for Razer devices on Linux
On my 10 machine I use it and find it so much more pleasing than the default desktop.
[1] https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases
https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-legally-use-windo...
Microsoft is doing it too:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/423165/how-to-turn-off-windo...
There's still Linux.
You never install more software in Linux? I certainly do, it’s why I got it. You can use this to make Windows “distros”. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
I’m not a Windows user but it’s not fundamentally different, Linux can come bloated, Windows can be stripped or another version like LTSC can be used.
I didn't mention the other two things because they aren't available settings. I mentioned the one that is, because I thought it might be helpful.
Aside: Why do people jump to snark so fast?
Hmm, are you sure about this? From a quick search, I'm able to find plenty of people complaining about the dark background being pitch black[0] (there's also a Feedback Hub item linked in there, not able to open it as I'm on Linux). I might be wrong, but I am fairly sure my display is not mis-calibrated, as I actually spent a lot of time calibrating it when it got here (have only had it a handful of months). The only downside of the monitor is that blacks really smear when you move them around, whereas dark greys are substantially better.
That's one of the reasons I really dislike the pitch black mode, anyway. It also just looks horrible on anything that isn't AMOLED, IMO.
> If you enable transparency effects the color of your background will blend with these and raise/lower them accordingly.
That's only for surfaces with blur enabled though, like the sidebar in Settings or the taskbar. Non-blurred surfaces are pitch black.
[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/6nzs34/any_way_t...
Also there is this https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law#Implications_for...
As much as I'd like to be able to claim to be a color expert that can eyeball HSL values with enough certainty to give the answer in decimal percentages the above numbers are from color picker readings of a screenshot of my install.
> I'm able to find plenty of people complaining about the dark background being pitch black[0]
I can't speak about what was true 4 years ago in a preview build adding dark theme, or Windows 10 at all for that matter as I don't have a current install anymore, but for Windows 11 today the above are the measured values.
> That's only for surfaces with blur enabled though, like the sidebar in Settings or the taskbar. Non-blurred surfaces are pitch black.
For that particular preview version of 10 perhaps, in Windows 11 there is also a new opaque material called Mica used heavily throughout the interface as it has less of a performance hit (no blur/transparency) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/style/m...
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sof...
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...
A few of them actually do make sense for a normal user (i.e. the Wifi portal stuff). But you can disable it if you spend some effort on it or you can also use an alternative build of Firefox without it. Not great, but also not terrible imo. Sorry, that I have no English source.
EDIT: I can't do that on my office laptop. My personal laptop isn't compatible with Windows 11.
What about something like this?https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/open-in-fi...
(I have major trust issues with extensions after huge disaster with the Chrome extension to suspend tabs which had malicious code embedded in it)
I had to create a new app to scratch that itch: https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd
I think the consistent shortcuts for switching between tabs are Cmd-Shift-[ and Cmd-Shift-]
It worked in all applications I used so far.
I mean, at some point they converge to the featureset of Windows 7, and then Microsoft has no business model anymore when it comes to stability and time-of-life; which was the previous reason industries chose Windows over alternatives.
