Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
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Microsoft appears to be blocking even more apps for customizing the user interface in Windows 11 24H2. Users noticed that ExplorerPatcher joined the recently blocked StartAllBack app.

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

One more reason to switch to Linux

  • @[email protected]English
    4•3 months ago

    Linux does not compete with Windows as a desktop operating system and I doubt it ever will.

    Surely it doesn’t, the former is a good system, the latter is monopolistic shit supported by people with duckling syndrome and those who know no better.

    EDIT:

    does not offer the compatibility and ease of use (including for power users) that Windows - for all its faults - has.

    I hope you don’t mean those google-fu masters by “power users”, but otherwise this wouldn’t make any sense.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•3 months ago

      There’s a wide gulf between googlers and power users, and between power users and the “truly skilled”. I’m a Systems “Engineer” with nearly a decade experience in Tech Support, SysAdmin work, building custom system integrations/interop layers, and building custom automations.

      Got no problem doing deep troubleshooting, compiling from source, finding issues in open source code bases, fixing them, submitting pull requests, etc.

      Doesn’t mean I want to have to do all that regularly when I have other shit to get done.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•3 months ago

        Absolutely my experience too. Every once in a while I give Linux a chance on my personal desktop, only to find it working great… until it doesn’t for whatever reason and I’m left losing minutes to hours figuring out what and how it broke, browsing forums etc etc; usually to great frustration.

        I simply cannot afford that kind of nonsense for my work devices. I regularly do and have used macOS for work for the best part of the last two decades and have never, not once, found the system broken or in a state that I needed to fix things after updates. That OS just works. Always. Of course you’ll find weird stuff happening in the Apple user forums as well, but in my personal experience Mac OS is rock solid out of the box whereas Linux can be rock solid if you want to invest a lot of time in it. And for work, I cannot.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 months ago

          I don’t invest a lot of time into Linux. At home or at work.

          Windows at work is such PITA that even colleagues who are not very well with Linux prefer it for anything new.