I have one old laptop with Windows 10 sitting around, and only because it’s the only way to update the Xbox Series controller I have that randomly bootloops and thus is essentially useless anyway.
So this begs the question: how much of Windows can I delete and replace with foss stuff, while still having it technically be a Windows OS?
Soon:
“I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows/NT, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows plus NT. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another nonfree component of a fully functioning free GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX… and whatever NT does.”
You mean GNU\Windows\NT
Backslashes in file paths makes me go 🔥😡🤬😤😾💥
I think better questions to ask first might be things like “Can I pass the controller USB connection to windows in a VM?” which is probably yes, and “Can I just never update this controller?” which I would normally say is a yes, but it sounds like yours has issues.
The absolutely most? ReactOS. It’s not really suitable for daily use, but it is essentially a clean room reverse engineering project of Windows itself.
That’s just running a full fat installation of Windows.
Sounds more like Winbloat. >_>
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I love Dolphin. Great for GameCube and Wii games.
A surprising amount of KDE apps have Windows builds - most importantly for me, KDE Connect. Barely any need to use Windows Phone Link anymore!
Can recommend, Dolphin makes life on windows slightly more tolerable. Kate for Windows is also amazing
Does anyone else remember when you could replace windows ui entirely with plasma or did I hallucinate that memory
(Someone on the interweb:) “Hey, you should try KDE Connect”
(Me:) Uh, I don’t use Linux on my laptop and that’s the computer that I use the most
(S:) “Well it also runs on Windows.”
(Me:) Really?.. Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can’t remember what it’s called this week
I was like wait this is so cool then I realized I’m on Linux already
Does it need administrator access to install? If I can weasel that onto my work desktop without having to contact our support that would be great.
Please don’t bypass work restrictions
Great! Dolphin is also better than macOS Finder. I would replace it with Dolphin as well.
However, Windows Explorer in Windows 11 still excels in one area: it doesn’t have a header, and the tabs are displayed on the header, like in Chromium.
It’s also annoying that all KDE Dolphin tabs have that red [X] button. Sadly, the KDE developers reject great PRs like this one: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/269
Who even presses those [X] buttons? I always use the Ctrl+W shortcut.
However, Windows Explorer in Windows 11 still excels in one area: it doesn’t have a header, and the tabs are displayed on the header, like in Chromium.
You can make literally any window of any program have no header with KDE. I’m pretty sure you can make Dolphin look exactly how you are describing.
Closest thing I found was adding a close button directly on the toolbar. No min/max buttons available unfortunately. Or you csn use a specific window decoration with a locally integrated menu: github.com/Zren/material-decor…
Afaik the version is old?
nope
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