Thanks for featuring my "Live Tiles Anywhere" app! Hope you'll enjoy this tool 😁, I'm available for any feedback about issues or suggestions. p.s. the link to my tool in the description box is missing 😅
Here's the core difference: On Windows, you have to fight it to behave, because of the closed source nature of the OS. On Linux, you are encouraged to customize it, down to the kernel level.
@@xpusostomos Agreed. One is made by a corporation designed be simple to use with the goal of ripping you off, the other one design to be used by the people, for the people with genuine passion, but is very janky, as a result of in-fighting, politics, and the lack of human and monetary resource. This is why we can't have good things.
@@tanawatjukmongkol2178 if it isn't for windows then many of people don't even know how to use computers they are easy to use and not all of people in world is software engineers some people don't care about kernel they just want to get things done So technically windows has given a lot of things , we should apreciate it and install arch linux as software devs
@@sheroichi7728 Here's the thing: Windows is not user friendly, people are just used to it because they grew up using it. Windows has a lot of design flaws, on both the user and the system level. Just take a look at poor design of Windows 11, and the poor design of Windows API. Linux has tons of design flaws as well, but we shouldn't just say Linux is only for developers. Some people (yes, even grandmas) who grew up using Linux don't really have problem with it. The only "difficulty" Linux users face is trying to get unsupported third party products to work on Linux. The problem isn't Linux being "hard", but the lack of feature due to legislation / license (media codec, graphics cards, etc) barriers or in-cooperative software / hardware vendors.
This is really dope, I have been using Arch Linux and have gone thorugh a couple of Window Managers through the years and I must say that Win10/11 now looks more usable. Can't wait to add these programs to my Windows boot drive that I only use for gaming. I really like that the debloating tools were included, they are going to be very helpful for me since all I do is gaming and nothing else on Windows.
Windows has always ben as customizable as linux since windows 95, a lot of linux user just don't like to admit it because they want a reason to shit on windows for no reason.
As far as your opening statement goes, you're half right. Windows does offer 'some' customization through 3rd party software... but its barely a fraction of what Linux offers without ever installing a single extra program. Its just .. built in.
If there's one thing I honestly am not a fan of with Windows 11, is how redundant the virtual desktop feature is without the option of window rules (I.E: Open up Steam in the gaming virtual desktop, open up VS Code in the coding, Maya in art, etc) or a pager widget (like what's available in KDE). That, and the Fancy Zones option in PowerToys still not being proper tiled window management like what's available with plugins for GNOME, KDE, and even Mac OSX. Coming back to Windows 11 from my Fedora install just seems like there's massive workflow limitations due to how half-baked a lot of the new features feel, which is a shame. We really need more tiled window management plugins that aren't simply ports of stuff like i3 or Suckless DWM.
Teracopy mentioned just got me feeling nostalgic, i actually forgot about it, lol. My personal favorite de-bloat tool is Chris Titus tech windows utility, liked it cause it wont break anything, while also disabling telemetry and installs apps i choose from winget
In terms of customization, I find it hilarious how Stardock software offers the most complete suite to make it look and behave like gnome/kde but it costs quite a bit (for something that's relatively simple and free in linux).
Thanks for this. Returned to Windows because of necessity after running Linux exclusively for 4 years, and immediately hating my experience. Don't think I will ever like Windows, but I can make my stay at least a little more pleasant.
7+ Taskbar Tweaks is a must for me because I like to set it to control volume by scrolling anywhere ok the taskbar to volume up or down. It beats having to take my hand off the mouse to press the volume keys or reach across the keyboard with my left hand.
Files has come a damn long way since I first tried it a couple years ago. And funnily enough it's more space efficient despite being the bubbly UWP style app because of Explorer's ribbon and the fact that it displays half your stuff in the sidebar twice for no good reason.
ah yezz i remember Files back when it was still in win10 fluent UI, its uh.. not a good experience, loading folders is slower etc, but now its still slower but in milisecond difference(i can feel it but some dont mind it) but yeah ill wait until they can make it just 0.x milisevond slower then i use it again
12:14 Great vid. Would love a PyWinContext follow up. Does it work with the new Windows 11 right click menu? What if you go back to Windows 10 style? Also I'd be great to get a list of all those lovely scripts!!!👌🏼🙂
As an alternatives to mouse without borders I highly reccomend the open source program barier than can be uses as a software KVM accross multiple operating systems even. I use my Windows and Linux system side by side now. Also for advanced users migrating from Linux or just playing around I would really suggest using the package manager chocolaty
copying files still crashes explorer for me, on windows 10. Teracopy is so goated, i can't live without it. Although i do use One Commander rather than Files. Try it out, I find theres more options and variability in there.
0:48 That is... if we forget that third party tools under windows, are a jerry-rig wich may or may not work in future versions or be blocked my microsoft or break something under windows. While gnome tweak tools is still a third party, it aint trespassing its ways.
I mean I have lots of customizations and themes for various DEs that feel like a jerry rig and break often too Hell just getting KDE widgets to cooperate is often an adventure
@@pushqrdx Well, not that i do some bizarre stuff, but never had issues under ubuntu with that. Tbh ubuntu usually breaks itself when i have custom third party repo programs, such as virtual box and pcsx2.
@@EposVox I had issues in linux too, but had a way worse customization experience under windows, but that may just be me. I had some issues in other DE's, but i had all sorts of issues under kde. I don't really knew if my distro had a outdated bad version or what. Cinnamon is also really buggy everytime i try it. But i didnt had that many issues with xfce, nor with gnome wich i usually customize alot because i actually dont like it, and only use it because ubuntu has it.
Hi buddy. Sorry to ask thus question here.🙈 you ha e helped me a ton on getting my stream to look the best it can be this fare. But its still looking blocky when streaming gt sport on ps5 through my 4k60 pro mk2 with my gigabite 1660ti on a i7 4790k. I'm wanting to know if I upgrade to a ryzen 7 5800x with a 3070 or 80 card. Would this finally give me a clear stream?. I have a upload broadband speed of 39mb. So upload stream is not an issue. Your my go to guy. Love your channel. And im always smashing the like button. Awsome work as always. 👊💯
Windows and Linux *are* fundamentally different with customization. Most desktop environments on Linux, including GNOME, are customized using first-party developed tools, which are often included as a core feature of the desktop environment, sans GNOME which provides gnome tweaks separately from the DE. These tools are able to interface entirely natively with the DE, and the DEs are built from a fundamental level to allow these customizations. All of the customization tools for Windows that achieve this level have to use rather hacky methods to inject themselves into or render on top of the shell instance of windows explorer. No matter how well done it is, this is fundamentally how they work, and while they work well, this is most certainly inferior to being able to do all of this at a native and integrated level.
when i enable transparency on KDE i do it once, and it stays that way, when you use something like translucent tb in windows in a low spec pc every time the system boots up i need to wait a couple of seconds for the transparency to take effect, and if for some reason i accidentally close it it loses the effect, agreed 100% of what was said here, and i know it by experience
I mean, this is definitely cool, don't get me wrong, I like what I'm seeing here. But why at this point in the OS's development would you want to go through any of this? Especially considering It's very likely that some of these tweaks/apps will be broken as MS rolls out updates? I guess I just don't have the motivation or energy to be a "new software" pioneer for MS again after being an early adopter for Vista, Win7, and Win10, especially since Win11 isn't going to offer any significant technological advantages over Win10, bar slightly better I/O performance. Vista motivated me to dive in with DX10 exclusivity, Win7 offered DX11 and a much more streamlined and superior OS. Win10 brought telemetry and a bunch of bloat I didn't want, but it also brought DX12, and DX12U. All Win11 seems to be bringing to the table is rounded corners and a less functional UI....
Wrong reasoning: MS Windows is a proprietary closed source code software. I was not meant for high customization. You can only play with options given by the maker of the software. Playing with 3rd party tools to do that will most likely brake the system. Linux on the contrary was built for customizing, as open source, community driven development meant for very high customization.
Very thorough collection of right tools - it shows that you know the topic, even terracopy is here, yet, one more should be mentioned that's anti-bloatware Sophia Script for Windows, it has a learning curve, but it's super powerful.. could be used in conjunction with ThisisWin11, or instead of it, you mentioned correctly sometime they could conflict.
I hope one day there will be a windows WM that looks almost exactly like hyprland. Im pretty much forced to use windows because the drivers for my nvidia card on wayland is completely broken and i cant stand using linux without hyprland anymore.
@@EposVox my experience thus far has led me to believe otherwise, from the most popular desktop environments, kde plasma : system settings. xfce : system settings. cinnamon : system settings. It's only Gnome devs who decided to separate other tweaks from the system settings, although starting from gnome 41 they started to integrate some gnome tweaks settings here and there
@@EposVox and like, if downloading tweaks with "sudo zypper in gnome-tweaks" is too hard, imagine having to download 5 different programs just to modify the task bar
@@EposVox I have never found myself having to modify config files on desktop environments, and my system is very much customized, kde plasma with pseudo Mac OS looks. By the way, do you know there to put themes to use for the system? That's right, in the /home/user/.themes folder, what about icons and cursors? /home/user/.icons folder. With plasma, it's even easier, as they integrate everything to the settings menu, from fonts to global themes
I didn't say installing tweaks was hard. That's the point. Running an exe and installing a program are the same tier of difficulty. And your cursors in Windows are C:\Windows\Cursors - this isn't magically more difficult.
Transluscenttb isn't affecting/ working for my taskbar after I installed startallback. The options are all there when right-clocking on it in the try, but setting everything to clear doesn't have any affect; I still have the white cloud/box around the icons. I think that'd be a great combination if it would work, but it's not a bad look either way.
Hey! Thanks for the nice vid! MacOS style in win11 will be better(for me) but it looks not so different from Linux. That's nice. I have a question: Is there any way to remove the big white border in any windowed game on win11? I'm trying to use AutoHotkey scripts for it and "borderless gaming" but it does a fullscreen game, what I don't need, I need my game windowed but without a big white bar above. I know that such a possibility exists, it is enough to google the world of warcraft multi-boxing and there a person in windowed mode has 5-100 game windows. I want this feature for all games, without expanding the game to full screen. Thanks!
I don't think anything you could ever do would ever bring Windows up to the level of freedom we have with Linux. Linux is just the better consumer OS if you care about control over your OS. In my view, you should never need a work around program to take control of your OS. I think to make Windows better, Microsoft should ship a product that works out of the box... but then take their hands off the reins. Let users replace the shell (explorer.exe) with a third party shell. Let users replace the browser, or virtually any program. Don't lock down system functionality. And for the love of computing, lose that TPM nonsense.
" Linux is just the better consumer OS if you care about control over your OS." That is the problem, most users don't, and that is fine. What is not fine is that there is no Linux distro available for those kind of users. A Linux distro that does not require the user to care about the OS.
You can actually replace the shell (was surprised about that one as well), problem is, there are no proper ones out there. A few exist, but they are all outdated....
I guess some would want to change to Linux due to customizations, but to me that's just an extra. The main reason to me, and perhaps to a lot of other people, is... screw Microsoft. Like, screw Streamlabs as well.
use command prompt and wanna customize it? clink + oh my posh. not only can oh my posh and clink theme the prompt like i could with zsh, but clink has autocomplete and history as well.
The problem I found with oh-my-posh was the multiple second start up time. It doesn't seem like much, but it's really annoying when you are used to instant. (Sorry to nerco.)
5:26 - it should be clarified here that you can NOT use any start menu style other than the windows 7 style start menu with StartAllBack. You can tweak other appearance styles with that selection, but it does not give you back the Windows 10 start menu, which is what I wanted. There is no option except to toggle on their version of the Win 7 or XP start menu and the 11 menu.
I tried Files for awhile a few weeks back and after awhile it likes to hang up and lag sometimes. Or, completely not respond and crash. Would be great if it stayed responsive
@@EposVox It's a monster, not comparable to something like Files. You combines several tools you use/suggest and offers so much more, extremely configurable/expandable, can be 100% keyboard controlled with tons of shortcuts for all the functions. But ye, to each his own. It's my daily driver for 25y.
Plenty of people have things or programs that don’t run on Linux. Or just don’t want to fight it all the time. That’s perfectly fine. Right tool for the right job
Linux fanboys be like: "Switch to linux! your supporting Micro$oft! But you can't do this *_insert_terminal_linux_feature_no_normal_person_really_care_about_here_* on Windows!"
Also, they be like: "You are biased! When you are on Linux, you complain that Linux is bad when you are bad! But, when you are on Windows, you should you can CUsTomIZe Windows and stuff like that, as in Linux, BUT YOU CAN'T For example! You can't even remove Internet Explorer!" Bruh, I hate Linux community sometimes.
Debloating does nothing besides uninstalling preinstalled apps which you can uninstall manually. Worthless. Also tweaking will break your system eventually after update. I uses ExporerPatcher and explorer.exe stopped launching after some update
Windows is not sutable for devops or script based workflows, you can't run powershell/cmd script without spawning a terminal window, the invocation of scripts is horrendously slow, yes you can write your script in VB, but the language is so old and oudated that it doesn't make sense learning it just to have silent scripts on Windows. In general the system is not suited for development, WSL and bash don't have deep system integration they are like an addon on Windows, not an integral part of the OS. There is a reason why coders don't use Windows, don't think you are smarter and can safely piss against the wind, you can't. If you want to admin windows machines via active directory it works alright, but windows itself is not for scripting or tweaking.
*reads video title*. LMFAO....That's cute...you ACTUALLY call controlling some cosmetic things about winturd 11 " controlling windows 11." Unless you gain EDITING access to the windows kernel and can PERMANENTLY remove the abomination that is the telemetry AND updates engines....you're not controlling jack shit. Sorry, but facts don't care about anyone's feelings. AussieEevee said it best " you should never need a work around program to take control of your OS " most applicably adding to that person's point I'll speak in the mindselt of Ron Paul but coherent to the OS and PC tech world " Who owns your PC......YOU ( the person who paid to PURCHASE AND OWN IT) or lying, complacent, hypocritical NSA-sucking up big corporation? " * In walks Linux Mint Cinnamon* " You cannot stop an idea whose time has come " ;)
All of this can break in any moment at Microsoft's will. Just one order will do. You are not in control, but at the mercy of their will. You can't decide, they do. It's not yours, it's theirs. Don't you realise you don't own anything of that or hold any right to absolutely anything related to it? The fact that you think GNOME/KDE+neofetch+package manager=Linux shows that those are the only things you know about it. If you know literally nothing about it, shut up and let experts hold an informed discussion.
The fact that you think me drawing a comparison between a couple ways of doing specific tasks is me thinking “that=Linux” just further shows how your toxic gatekeepy nonsense is ruining any potential viability of Linux desktop. Lmfao go touch grass
i'M LOVING THIS OPEN SOURCE ARC YOU ARE ON. 👍👍👍👍👍
Most of these tools are not open source.
Most of my channel has been focused on an open source tool since 2013 lol
well i use sizer and Rounded TB
but it still Bugged with Translucent TB, if not ill use it alongside like you do
@@EposVoxi have a project thats even better than yours, id like suggestions onwhat u want to see
Thanks for featuring my "Live Tiles Anywhere" app!
Hope you'll enjoy this tool 😁, I'm available for any feedback about issues or suggestions.
p.s. the link to my tool in the description box is missing 😅
Ahhh don’t know what happened there. Fixed
Looks like Tiles are back on the menu boys!
Here's the core difference:
On Windows, you have to fight it to behave, because of the closed source nature of the OS.
On Linux, you are encouraged to customize it, down to the kernel level.
You have to fight both, but for different reasons
@@xpusostomos Agreed. One is made by a corporation designed be simple to use with the goal of ripping you off, the other one design to be used by the people, for the people with genuine passion, but is very janky, as a result of in-fighting, politics, and the lack of human and monetary resource. This is why we can't have good things.
@@tanawatjukmongkol2178 if it isn't for windows then many of people don't even know how to use computers
they are easy to use and not all of people in world is software engineers some people don't care about kernel they just want to get things done
So technically windows has given a lot of things , we should apreciate it and install arch linux as software devs
@@sheroichi7728 Here's the thing: Windows is not user friendly, people are just used to it because they grew up using it. Windows has a lot of design flaws, on both the user and the system level. Just take a look at poor design of Windows 11, and the poor design of Windows API.
Linux has tons of design flaws as well, but we shouldn't just say Linux is only for developers. Some people (yes, even grandmas) who grew up using Linux don't really have problem with it. The only "difficulty" Linux users face is trying to get unsupported third party products to work on Linux. The problem isn't Linux being "hard", but the lack of feature due to legislation / license (media codec, graphics cards, etc) barriers or in-cooperative software / hardware vendors.
This is really dope, I have been using Arch Linux and have gone thorugh a couple of Window Managers through the years and I must say that Win10/11 now looks more usable. Can't wait to add these programs to my Windows boot drive that I only use for gaming. I really like that the debloating tools were included, they are going to be very helpful for me since all I do is gaming and nothing else on Windows.
Windows has always ben as customizable as linux since windows 95, a lot of linux user just don't like to admit it because they want a reason to shit on windows for no reason.
@@thebestgamer5248 your wrong, stop being a fanboy of windows
@@thebestgamer5248 Change the shell on Windows. Or, maybe change the login manager? Or even, maybe change the entire kernel??
As far as your opening statement goes, you're half right. Windows does offer 'some' customization through 3rd party software... but its barely a fraction of what Linux offers without ever installing a single extra program. Its just .. built in.
Linux is just the kernel. So everything else is 3rd party.
Youre just asking for the linux copypasta@@jarod1701
@@jarod1701However most Linux third party software allows you to customize.
If there's one thing I honestly am not a fan of with Windows 11, is how redundant the virtual desktop feature is without the option of window rules (I.E: Open up Steam in the gaming virtual desktop, open up VS Code in the coding, Maya in art, etc) or a pager widget (like what's available in KDE). That, and the Fancy Zones option in PowerToys still not being proper tiled window management like what's available with plugins for GNOME, KDE, and even Mac OSX. Coming back to Windows 11 from my Fedora install just seems like there's massive workflow limitations due to how half-baked a lot of the new features feel, which is a shame.
We really need more tiled window management plugins that aren't simply ports of stuff like i3 or Suckless DWM.
Teracopy mentioned just got me feeling nostalgic, i actually forgot about it, lol.
My personal favorite de-bloat tool is Chris Titus tech windows utility, liked it cause it wont break anything, while also disabling telemetry and installs apps i choose from winget
Surprised to not see any mention of Chocolatey here for windows package management
In terms of customization, I find it hilarious how Stardock software offers the most complete suite to make it look and behave like gnome/kde but it costs quite a bit (for something that's relatively simple and free in linux).
Appreciate it my guy! Interested in trying a number of these ❤️
Thanks for this. Returned to Windows because of necessity after running Linux exclusively for 4 years, and immediately hating my experience. Don't think I will ever like Windows, but I can make my stay at least a little more pleasant.
7+ Taskbar Tweaks is a must for me because I like to set it to control volume by scrolling anywhere ok the taskbar to volume up or down. It beats having to take my hand off the mouse to press the volume keys or reach across the keyboard with my left hand.
Would you have any interest in trying out the komorebi tiling window manager for that missing piece of the Linux workflow on Windows? 🤞
There are some tools here I have never heard of myself thank you so much for this wonderful upload : )
This new studio is just sick
Files has come a damn long way since I first tried it a couple years ago.
And funnily enough it's more space efficient despite being the bubbly UWP style app because of Explorer's ribbon and the fact that it displays half your stuff in the sidebar twice for no good reason.
ah yezz i remember Files back when it was still in win10 fluent UI, its uh.. not a good experience, loading folders is slower etc, but now its still slower but in milisecond difference(i can feel it but some dont mind it) but yeah ill wait until they can make it just 0.x milisevond slower then i use it again
12:14 Great vid. Would love a PyWinContext follow up. Does it work with the new Windows 11 right click menu? What if you go back to Windows 10 style? Also I'd be great to get a list of all those lovely scripts!!!👌🏼🙂
Hey Addie, thanks!
This is the type of content that I like just for the sake of liking
As an alternatives to mouse without borders I highly reccomend the open source program barier than can be uses as a software KVM accross multiple operating systems even. I use my Windows and Linux system side by side now. Also for advanced users migrating from Linux or just playing around I would really suggest using the package manager chocolaty
copying files still crashes explorer for me, on windows 10. Teracopy is so goated, i can't live without it. Although i do use One Commander rather than Files. Try it out, I find theres more options and variability in there.
0:48 That is... if we forget that third party tools under windows, are a jerry-rig wich may or may not work in future versions or be blocked my microsoft or break something under windows.
While gnome tweak tools is still a third party, it aint trespassing its ways.
I mean I have lots of customizations and themes for various DEs that feel like a jerry rig and break often too
Hell just getting KDE widgets to cooperate is often an adventure
as if the gnome extensions you install through tweaks or even the tweaks app itself keeps working across major gnome updates :D
@@pushqrdx Well, not that i do some bizarre stuff, but never had issues under ubuntu with that. Tbh ubuntu usually breaks itself when i have custom third party repo programs, such as virtual box and pcsx2.
@@EposVox I had issues in linux too, but had a way worse customization experience under windows, but that may just be me.
I had some issues in other DE's, but i had all sorts of issues under kde. I don't really knew if my distro had a outdated bad version or what. Cinnamon is also really buggy everytime i try it.
But i didnt had that many issues with xfce, nor with gnome wich i usually customize alot because i actually dont like it, and only use it because ubuntu has it.
Hi buddy. Sorry to ask thus question here.🙈 you ha e helped me a ton on getting my stream to look the best it can be this fare. But its still looking blocky when streaming gt sport on ps5 through my 4k60 pro mk2 with my gigabite 1660ti on a i7 4790k. I'm wanting to know if I upgrade to a ryzen 7 5800x with a 3070 or 80 card. Would this finally give me a clear stream?. I have a upload broadband speed of 39mb. So upload stream is not an issue. Your my go to guy. Love your channel. And im always smashing the like button. Awsome work as always. 👊💯
If you debloat then add in your own bloat then you're using your system your way. I don't see how that's a bad thing.
i started using teracopy in the vista days when file copying was legitimately broken.
scoop >> winget
Theirs a port of BusyBox to Windows, it made the Windows command line usable as a Linux user when I tried Windows 11 for a while
Windows and Linux *are* fundamentally different with customization. Most desktop environments on Linux, including GNOME, are customized using first-party developed tools, which are often included as a core feature of the desktop environment, sans GNOME which provides gnome tweaks separately from the DE. These tools are able to interface entirely natively with the DE, and the DEs are built from a fundamental level to allow these customizations.
All of the customization tools for Windows that achieve this level have to use rather hacky methods to inject themselves into or render on top of the shell instance of windows explorer. No matter how well done it is, this is fundamentally how they work, and while they work well, this is most certainly inferior to being able to do all of this at a native and integrated level.
isn't it the same as gnome extensions? and why things like Dock to Panel breaks when gnome 40 released?
when i enable transparency on KDE i do it once, and it stays that way, when you use something like translucent tb in windows in a low spec pc every time the system boots up i need to wait a couple of seconds for the transparency to take effect, and if for some reason i accidentally close it it loses the effect, agreed 100% of what was said here, and i know it by experience
furthermore it feels like it is in a loop overwriting the default shell, some apps even halt with the system
Yeah I was gunna say my customizations in quite a few DEs get broken all the time lol
@@pipyakas because gnome is shit
I mean, this is definitely cool, don't get me wrong, I like what I'm seeing here. But why at this point in the OS's development would you want to go through any of this? Especially considering It's very likely that some of these tweaks/apps will be broken as MS rolls out updates? I guess I just don't have the motivation or energy to be a "new software" pioneer for MS again after being an early adopter for Vista, Win7, and Win10, especially since Win11 isn't going to offer any significant technological advantages over Win10, bar slightly better I/O performance. Vista motivated me to dive in with DX10 exclusivity, Win7 offered DX11 and a much more streamlined and superior OS. Win10 brought telemetry and a bunch of bloat I didn't want, but it also brought DX12, and DX12U. All Win11 seems to be bringing to the table is rounded corners and a less functional UI....
Reformatting my in place upgraded win 11 install during release preview era for a fresh win 11 install with some of these tweaks.
The problem is if anyone tries to customize windows heavily it breaks.
Wrong reasoning: MS Windows is a proprietary closed source code software. I was not meant for high customization. You can only play with options given by the maker of the software. Playing with 3rd party tools to do that will most likely brake the system.
Linux on the contrary was built for customizing, as open source, community driven development meant for very high customization.
3rd party tools have been woriking fine for me
Cool. But I also would like to see tiling window manager.
Very thorough collection of right tools - it shows that you know the topic, even terracopy is here, yet, one more should be mentioned that's anti-bloatware Sophia Script for Windows, it has a learning curve, but it's super powerful.. could be used in conjunction with ThisisWin11, or instead of it, you mentioned correctly sometime they could conflict.
One individual sitting next to my class used that rain background thingy and it looked so cheesy but whatever floats your boat I guess
I hope one day there will be a windows WM that looks almost exactly like hyprland. Im pretty much forced to use windows because the drivers for my nvidia card on wayland is completely broken and i cant stand using linux without hyprland anymore.
Windows customization sounds extra painful. and I'm only started using Linux 8 months ago
It’s no painful than downloading tweaks on Linux, figuring out where to put themes or editing random config files, no
@@EposVox my experience thus far has led me to believe otherwise, from the most popular desktop environments, kde plasma : system settings. xfce : system settings. cinnamon : system settings. It's only Gnome devs who decided to separate other tweaks from the system settings, although starting from gnome 41 they started to integrate some gnome tweaks settings here and there
@@EposVox and like, if downloading tweaks with "sudo zypper in gnome-tweaks" is too hard, imagine having to download 5 different programs just to modify the task bar
@@EposVox I have never found myself having to modify config files on desktop environments, and my system is very much customized, kde plasma with pseudo Mac OS looks.
By the way, do you know there to put themes to use for the system? That's right, in the /home/user/.themes folder, what about icons and cursors? /home/user/.icons folder. With plasma, it's even easier, as they integrate everything to the settings menu, from fonts to global themes
I didn't say installing tweaks was hard. That's the point. Running an exe and installing a program are the same tier of difficulty.
And your cursors in Windows are C:\Windows\Cursors - this isn't magically more difficult.
Is this the Lewitt 440 pure mic? It sounds good!!
Thank you so much!
Look at what they need to mimmick a fraction of our power.
Transluscenttb isn't affecting/ working for my taskbar after I installed startallback. The options are all there when right-clocking on it in the try, but setting everything to clear doesn't have any affect; I still have the white cloud/box around the icons. I think that'd be a great combination if it would work, but it's not a bad look either way.
Linux users: Wait, that's illegal...
Hey! Thanks for the nice vid! MacOS style in win11 will be better(for me) but it looks not so different from Linux. That's nice. I have a question: Is there any way to remove the big white border in any windowed game on win11? I'm trying to use AutoHotkey scripts for it and "borderless gaming" but it does a fullscreen game, what I don't need, I need my game windowed but without a big white bar above. I know that such a possibility exists, it is enough to google the world of warcraft multi-boxing and there a person in windowed mode has 5-100 game windows. I want this feature for all games, without expanding the game to full screen. Thanks!
I don't think anything you could ever do would ever bring Windows up to the level of freedom we have with Linux. Linux is just the better consumer OS if you care about control over your OS.
In my view, you should never need a work around program to take control of your OS. I think to make Windows better, Microsoft should ship a product that works out of the box... but then take their hands off the reins. Let users replace the shell (explorer.exe) with a third party shell. Let users replace the browser, or virtually any program. Don't lock down system functionality. And for the love of computing, lose that TPM nonsense.
" Linux is just the better consumer OS if you care about control over your OS."
That is the problem, most users don't, and that is fine. What is not fine is that there is no Linux distro available for those kind of users. A Linux distro that does not require the user to care about the OS.
You can actually replace the shell (was surprised about that one as well), problem is, there are no proper ones out there. A few exist, but they are all outdated....
Where is the chapters my guy?
Edit: scratch that lol they are visible now. Thanks for the video guy literally just “upgraded”
Aerotweaker broke my taskbar. I've uniinstalled it but I cant get my taskbar back to how it was
I guess some would want to change to Linux due to customizations, but to me that's just an extra. The main reason to me, and perhaps to a lot of other people, is... screw Microsoft. Like, screw Streamlabs as well.
use command prompt and wanna customize it? clink + oh my posh. not only can oh my posh and clink theme the prompt like i could with zsh, but clink has autocomplete and history as well.
The problem I found with oh-my-posh was the multiple second start up time. It doesn't seem like much, but it's really annoying when you are used to instant. (Sorry to nerco.)
11:16 Samurai Doge!
5:26 - it should be clarified here that you can NOT use any start menu style other than the windows 7 style start menu with StartAllBack. You can tweak other appearance styles with that selection, but it does not give you back the Windows 10 start menu, which is what I wanted. There is no option except to toggle on their version of the Win 7 or XP start menu and the 11 menu.
Man, when u r gonna review the GoXLR Microphone?
Whenever they send it to me
What is ur chrome theme
how did you get dolphin file manager dark mode?
I tried Files for awhile a few weeks back and after awhile it likes to hang up and lag sometimes. Or, completely not respond and crash. Would be great if it stayed responsive
This basically fixes everything that annoyed me about Win11.
THE TAKSBAR
3:25 TAKSBAR
Whoops. I’ve been low on sleep
I would have paired with Linux Mint Cinnamon Edge or Mate no Snaps and is a lot more stable for Nvidia GPUs.
Everything Ok with that finger I hope?
make a tiling window manager tutorial for windows.
Already switched for 14 days
Which on is better arch or windows
arch
If you're asking just use Windows. Arch will make you go bald.
Alr epic
use Barrier insted of Mouse without borders.
Please dont use gnome
based
Oh I don’t. Have hated it since they moved away from Gnome 2
All good - but still no Total Commander, dude :)
Never been a fan. That’s why I recommended Files.
@@EposVox It's a monster, not comparable to something like Files. You combines several tools you use/suggest and offers so much more, extremely configurable/expandable, can be 100% keyboard controlled with tons of shortcuts for all the functions. But ye, to each his own. It's my daily driver for 25y.
As much problems I had with programs which worked perfectly in Windows 7, but not in windows 10, I would avoid 11 at all cost !!!
The end result is more bloated than a clean windows 11 install imo
But Y even use Windows
I am playing Prince of persia on linux RN
Games work there
It's the devs that don't port
Plenty of people have things or programs that don’t run on Linux. Or just don’t want to fight it all the time. That’s perfectly fine.
Right tool for the right job
Linux fanboys be like: "Switch to linux! your supporting Micro$oft! But you can't do this *_insert_terminal_linux_feature_no_normal_person_really_care_about_here_* on Windows!"
Also, they be like: "You are biased! When you are on Linux, you complain that Linux is bad when you are bad! But, when you are on Windows, you should you can CUsTomIZe Windows and stuff like that, as in Linux, BUT YOU CAN'T For example! You can't even remove Internet Explorer!"
Bruh, I hate Linux community sometimes.
ElevenClock was a life saver. Why they removed the ability to have a clock on extra monitors is beyond me.
Debloating does nothing besides uninstalling preinstalled apps which you can uninstall manually. Worthless.
Also tweaking will break your system eventually after update. I uses ExporerPatcher and explorer.exe stopped launching after some update
For me, One Commander arte better in everithing than Files.
StartAllBack is free
I think im gonna stay on linux cause I have a feeling you're gonna be dong that after every update when it just decides to reset itself lol
Windows will never be open source, GNU is freesoftware
Windows is not sutable for devops or script based workflows, you can't run powershell/cmd script without spawning a terminal window, the invocation of scripts is horrendously slow, yes you can write your script in VB, but the language is so old and oudated that it doesn't make sense learning it just to have silent scripts on Windows. In general the system is not suited for development, WSL and bash don't have deep system integration they are like an addon on Windows, not an integral part of the OS.
There is a reason why coders don't use Windows, don't think you are smarter and can safely piss against the wind, you can't.
If you want to admin windows machines via active directory it works alright, but windows itself is not for scripting or tweaking.
WOW, I am First?
Guess so
I don't get why people like windows 7 design so much, It looks so dated
personally i liked everything about it BUT its visual design. like its functionalities and stuff like that. i agree that it looks ass now tho.
Judging how FF was broke because they tried to offer a decent service on Windows, I await this guide being useless in 3 months
HOLY SHIT IM FIRST
Also a wonderful little video overview of a lot of different types of utilities and teaks. Good shit!
*reads video title*. LMFAO....That's cute...you ACTUALLY call controlling some cosmetic things about winturd 11 " controlling windows 11."
Unless you gain EDITING access to the windows kernel and can PERMANENTLY remove the abomination that is the telemetry AND updates engines....you're not controlling jack shit. Sorry, but facts don't care about anyone's feelings.
AussieEevee said it best " you should never need a work around program to take control of your OS " most applicably adding to that person's point
I'll speak in the mindselt of Ron Paul but coherent to the OS and PC tech world
" Who owns your PC......YOU ( the person who paid to PURCHASE AND OWN IT) or lying, complacent, hypocritical NSA-sucking up big corporation? "
* In walks Linux Mint Cinnamon*
" You cannot stop an idea whose time has come " ;)
All of this can break in any moment at Microsoft's will. Just one order will do. You are not in control, but at the mercy of their will. You can't decide, they do. It's not yours, it's theirs. Don't you realise you don't own anything of that or hold any right to absolutely anything related to it?
The fact that you think GNOME/KDE+neofetch+package manager=Linux shows that those are the only things you know about it. If you know literally nothing about it, shut up and let experts hold an informed discussion.
The fact that you think me drawing a comparison between a couple ways of doing specific tasks is me thinking “that=Linux” just further shows how your toxic gatekeepy nonsense is ruining any potential viability of Linux desktop. Lmfao go touch grass
Oh you mean breaking userspace? The favorite thing of certain linux distros. :D