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Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

One more reason to switch to Linux

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can see why they'd do it. Windows is a corporate product and MSFT wants everyone's experience to be tailored to exactly how they think is best. Gives some Apple vibes.

I think at this point MSFT knows the average user is just gonna keep using Windows so they don't really care about tailoring to individuals. I expect to see a lot more of this.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

The thing about Windows, or the thing that is going away, was that it has the possibility of being modified and customised, which made it more freedom respecting than macOS.

From the windows registry, group policies, PE functionality, Windows was the commercial platform for tinkerers, businesses and professionals. It's basically what made Windows awesome.

Now, with ads in the menu, Microsoft being horny for apple's app store vendor lock-in since Windows 8 and depriving the user of any kind of control, we finally see Microsoft emerge as one of the most evil companies to ever exist.

Why? Read their history, because even with the good things they did with Windows, there's a thousand bad, and you should never play devil's advocate for them. They, nor Apple, deserves it.

Also: use Linux or BSD, pls.