There are genuinely some great power toys available.
>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).
i can confess discovering XP back then made me actively like Windows ; that was a long time ago though and with each new version my liking has been reaching new abysses
I'm in the camp of liking Windows and having had to put up with Linux and MacOS for work. Inertia and familiarity does play a role, but as a dev there are things I really like (ETW + WinDbg immediately come to mind) & really miss on other OSes. I'm not there yet to join an enthusiast group though. ;)
There are probably more Windows enthusiasts than there are Linux enthusiasts in absolute numbers.
Is this a troll comment?
Of course there are people who like Windows. There are millions of people who prefer Windows.
Is that a problem for you? Do you also act with bigotry over people who don't eat the same breakfast cereal as you?
>Is that a problem for you? Do you also act with bigotry over people who don't eat the same breakfast cereal as you?
That’s… weirdly agressive. What about me stating I’ve never met a fan of X feels bigoted to you?
It's not about differences of opinion. It's about liking genuinely bad things.
A better analogy might be: Do you act with bigotry over people who eat grass for breakfast?
Cereal is literally grass seeds so you may need to find a different analogy.
So in your mind there is no difference between Frosted Flakes and grass? Okay.
How is it bigotry? I've never met anyone who likes, say, "Baby Shark" (well, anyone with an age in double-digits). I'd be surprised if many -- possibly any -- exist. But if they do, well, de gustibus non est disputandum. None of my business, and I bear no ill-will towards them.
I’ve been using WindHawk for a bit, and my favourite mods have been:
Speaking of modding desktop environments, has anyone figured out how to get back the old border radius in macOS Tahoe?
I 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).
Never heard of Windhawk.
This was news to me, too.
But I rarely use Windows. I used to like it but for me XP was so ugly and bloated I switched to Linux and OS X full-time. I've never looked back.
I just play occasionally to keep my skills vaguely current. Sometimes I need to work with it.
Windows 11 is awful. Bloated, full of ads and nags, forcibly keeps your stuff in the crappy MS cloud drive for which there's no Linux GUI client.
You can't even put the taskbar on the left edge where it belongs.
Worse than Vista or Win ME or even Win 8.x.
I moved all my emergency Windows partitions to Win10 IoT LTSC. Quite unbloated, proper local accounts, no Store, no Onedrive, no Modern apps at all. It's what Win10 should have been.
If 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.
>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).
i can confess discovering XP back then made me actively like Windows ; that was a long time ago though and with each new version my liking has been reaching new abysses
I'm in the camp of liking Windows and having had to put up with Linux and MacOS for work. Inertia and familiarity does play a role, but as a dev there are things I really like (ETW + WinDbg immediately come to mind) & really miss on other OSes. I'm not there yet to join an enthusiast group though. ;)
There are probably more Windows enthusiasts than there are Linux enthusiasts in absolute numbers.
Is this a troll comment?
Of course there are people who like Windows. There are millions of people who prefer Windows.
Is that a problem for you? Do you also act with bigotry over people who don't eat the same breakfast cereal as you?
>Is that a problem for you? Do you also act with bigotry over people who don't eat the same breakfast cereal as you?
That’s… weirdly agressive. What about me stating I’ve never met a fan of X feels bigoted to you?
It's not about differences of opinion. It's about liking genuinely bad things.
A better analogy might be: Do you act with bigotry over people who eat grass for breakfast?
Cereal is literally grass seeds so you may need to find a different analogy.
So in your mind there is no difference between Frosted Flakes and grass? Okay.
How is it bigotry? I've never met anyone who likes, say, "Baby Shark" (well, anyone with an age in double-digits). I'd be surprised if many -- possibly any -- exist. But if they do, well, de gustibus non est disputandum. None of my business, and I bear no ill-will towards them.
I’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
Speaking of modding desktop environments, has anyone figured out how to get back the old border radius in macOS Tahoe?
I 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).
Never heard of Windhawk.
This was news to me, too.
But I rarely use Windows. I used to like it but for me XP was so ugly and bloated I switched to Linux and OS X full-time. I've never looked back.
I just play occasionally to keep my skills vaguely current. Sometimes I need to work with it.
Windows 11 is awful. Bloated, full of ads and nags, forcibly keeps your stuff in the crappy MS cloud drive for which there's no Linux GUI client.
You can't even put the taskbar on the left edge where it belongs.
Worse than Vista or Win ME or even Win 8.x.
I moved all my emergency Windows partitions to Win10 IoT LTSC. Quite unbloated, proper local accounts, no Store, no Onedrive, no Modern apps at all. It's what Win10 should have been.
And it's getting updates until 2032.
So, Windhawk looks fun but I don't need it.