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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Major difference: Android is open source and Linux-based. Everything is made up of components z which are quite close together, but can be separated. In Windows everything is glued together. You can't separate it. You can't remove explorer.exe (Windows' window manager) and replace it with another. You can replace your android Launcher, and you can replace your Linux desktop environment. Heck, you can even install a tiling window manager on the MacOS, Apple's locked down desktop OS!!!! But not on Windows.

[–] misterjesus@poa.st 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@theshatterstone54 @olympus Yes, you can remove explorer.exe and run an alternative shell. I've done it.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How? Please, please let me know. That sounds like a fun project, and I've already got a Windows VM I don't use.

[–] misterjesus@poa.st 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@theshatterstone54 It basically a registry entry that you change.

superuser.com/questions/1016380/how-do-i-replace-the-system-shell-explorer-exe-with-another-process-in-windows#1016381

I’ve used litestep in the past for about 10 minutes.

litestep.net/

But there are others:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

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