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
    60•3 months ago

    I’m on 10 and been a top taskbar guy for years. Are you saying 11 forces you to have taskbar only on bottom?

      • @[email protected]English
        36•3 months ago

        Welp fuck. Guess I’ll start looking at Linux but every company I’ve worked for in the past 10 years is ALL Microsoft all the way

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

          Wine does a Lotta shit. I know I have an NTFS drive running on my debian-family machine.

            • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘English
              13•3 months ago

              Basically, they like to drink wine.

              No. I’m kidding. WINE stands for WINE Is Not an Emulator, and it allows you to run Windows applications on a Linux machine. It’s far from perfect, but it can be a lifesaver when switching from Windows to Linux. What user melpomenesclevage is trying to say, is that you can use WINE to significantly blunt the blow / daily usability learning curve when switching, to keep some of your familiar applications as is.

              Edit: here’s their site https://www.winehq.org/ the also explain it much better than I.

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

                How you explained it helped a lot. So it basically is a windows emulator but isn’t for legal reasons? Lol

                • @[email protected]English
                  10•3 months ago

                  Haha no, it’s technically not an emulator. Emulation means having a whole fake CPU that runs your software. Wine doesn’t do that, instead it makes the windows exe run in Linux and provides an API so the calls your windows program makes run natively.

                  Tldr emulation is slow, wine makes your programs run natively.

                  I switched to Linux for gaming a year ago and I have been blown away by how good it is.

                • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘English
                  8•3 months ago

                  Not really an emulator, though the end result is similar. WINE translates the instructions sent between the OS and software to languages each other understands. It’s like a Babel Fish for Windows programs and the Linux OS.

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

              You can run a lot of windows apps on Linux even if they don’t say they’re compatible, with a tool called WINE

              Also, it matters less if youre a little tipsy.

          • TwinTusksEnglish
            3•3 months ago

            Sadly, wine does nothing for my work application.

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

              Then wait until windows breaks it or it technically functions trapped in an unusable shell, and lose everything.