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

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      361·
      9 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

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
            141·
            9 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.

            • Quadhammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              9 months ago

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

              • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
                10·
                9 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.

              • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
                8·
                9 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.

          • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            9 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·
          9 months ago

          Sadly, wine does nothing for my work application.

          • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

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