My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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AppImageHub

>You don't just copy the binary on windows. You copy the binary and its dependencies. Unless it's based on .Net-framework, then yeah, you still care about it being updated through windows. Sure, but I can install s/w built for Windows XP into Windows 11 and it will just run 20 years later w/o modification - And I can do this on a large amount of commercial software, so its not a special case example which you can demonstrate on any OS. Simply not possible on any other desktop OS. Even if you have the source (which you won't for commercial s/w), its not just a simple recompile after 20 years. >You don't need to use dependencies from the system. If you're compiling yourself, you can either make them static, or use your custom location. In either case, there are no conflicts to deal with Static linking glibc.. yeah. :) >If you're using whole app packages, then you don't care about system deps at all. Flatpak apps ship their whole environment. AppImage apps do too, just without full isolation. (https://appimage.github.io/apps/ entries are all "download-and-run") Yet another "standard" that ultimately will fracture the deployment of software. These are just buggy half-baked standards anyway. Vendor releases 32bit AppImage and goes out of business, it stops working on 64bit OS.

#Front End Package Manager #Software Marketplace #Code Collaboration 5 social mentions

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privacy.sexy

#Monitoring Tools #Security & Privacy #Tool 21 social mentions

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AltTab

#Mac #Note Taking #Window Manager 13 social mentions

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AtlasOS

Been trying out AtlasOS recently (in a VM), which is one of those Open Source projects for debloating Windows: https://atlasos.net It's been pretty good so far, and makes Win 11 seem like a usable desktop rather than the piece of shit that MS wants to inflict on people. Linus Tech Tips reviewed it a while back, and gave it the thumbs up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7CIkZcWYE --- The earliest versions of AtlasOS, it used to disable security updates. No idea what was going through their heads when they did that. Thankfully, that stupidity has passed (after lots of people complained), so (security) updates work as expected.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 41 social mentions

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AME Wizard

I'm using Ameliorated Windows (https://ameliorated.io/) for the Windows that I have (just keeping it on there for if I sell the laptop), but I use Garuda Linux KDE 99% of the time. It's gotten quite good. The AME version of Windows just runs a bunch of power shell scripts and guts Windows of all the bloat, similar to what Atlas OS does. Cool thing is they're open source too. Revi OS is another good one. Revi OS does less removal, AME is the middle ground, and Atlas OS removes the most. Have tried all three and the AME one works best for me. Haven't seen an ad in the OS since.

#Monitoring Tools #Utilities #CRM 6 social mentions