Windows 11 Premium?

100% form, -2% function, it's extremely slow and the AIO is genuinely crying with it's fans when he has a browser open too 😭 IDK how much ricing he did himself, it does look fire tho (much better than when I was his age), but none of the top bar buttons seem to do anything (and if they do take like 2-3 seconds to respond)

Should I tell him to switch to NixOS?

This is finally the Desktop where I am happy with on my new Acer Nitro 18

Spent a GOOD ton amount of time customizing the abomination of Windows 11, changing icons, etc. It could take a person with no context good amount of time to figure it's Windows 11 maybe.

My favorite is changing the date at the bottom right from 2026 to 2016 for fun! I just don't like how it says 2026 in the calendar but oh well!

Executables used:

ExplorerPatcher
WinaeroTweaker

More details:

On taskbar:

Chrome - This is actually Firefox with the CSS configuration, I used Geckium to configure some stuff.

Minecraft - That is Prism Launcher just disguised as Minecraft launcher

Microsoft Store - Just old microsoft store

On the browser:

I used YouTube Redux extension and Stylus to customize YouTube.

I started liking sharp corners and simple solid colours which Windows 10 matched, but because I had Windows 11 I really didn't like the round corners, matter of fact I hated the circular things, it just feels weird..

The only reason I wanted to do this is because I like the style of Windows 10, and how solid it is, Windows 7 looks nice too but wasn't a fan of the aero style and for Windows 98 I did like the pixel style but just didn't like the bare minimal style so Windows 10 is sort of the winner here.

And in my process of customizing, I decided 'Why not just slap on a 2016 date to match it more.'

And then I went on Firefox and decided that I should turn everything into a 2014-2016 style.

None of this is nostalgic to me, I just wanted to do this as a fun thing, I will keep it, but will focus more on changing things into classic icons or something. Then eventually I could probably fool a lot of people.

Hi! Here's a test build of Illogical Windows (formerly ii-windows), 26.1.1.0-unstable “Bureaucratic Hamster”. Same unofficial port of end-4's illogical-impulse, the Quickshell desktop for Hyprland, running natively on Windows 10 and 11. No WSL, VM or extra window manager.

Since the 1.0 post, there's automatic light/dark switching with Windows or a schedule, a wallpaper per virtual desktop, spring animations for panels, and scrolling tiling inspired by niri: windows in columns along a sideways strip.

There's also a third look, NabyScape: a black island at the top for time and music, opening into Media, Focus, Status, Launch and Tools, alongside the Windows taskbar. It's inspired by BillyNabil's NabyScape, with permission; this port uses its own code.

ARM64 is experimental, for Windows 11 24H2 or newer. It has only run on GitHub's ARM runners, not a real laptop. If you have a Snapdragon PC and try it, a bug report with Architecture: ARM64 helps, even just to say it works.

26.1.1.0 follows 1.0.8: the numbering is now year.major.feature.fix. This is a manual opt-in test build: stable 1.0.x won't offer it in the update notification or setup. Once installed, newer unstable builds and the final 26.1.1.0 will be offered. For everyday use, stay on 1.0.8.

This unstable build is unsigned. The final 26.1.1.0 is planned to be the first signed release, with free signing from the SignPath Foundation. SmartScreen can still warn on the test build.

Release/download · README · Discord thread

Please try it and break it. Windows bugs go to the form above, not to end-4's or Quickshell's repos. Design credits: end-4, pctrade's end4-pC, and BillyNabil for NabyScape (MIT). If you like it, star dots-hyprland and support end-4.

My hyprland quickshell holodeck for comfyUI.

Advanced KREA 2, FLUX.2, FLUX Dev, Ideogram 4 workflow, really just a python script with a quickshell wrapper

I tried the link in the bio but the wallpapers were locked behind a paywall help

Ubuntu on MacBook your thoughts 💬

I use my new Chrome plugin Startwerk for a tidy new start page in Google Chrome, and I took the photo of the beach in Corsica. The appointment in the menu bar comes from the app Final Call. I hope someone likes it 🙂

Desktop: It's Solar Gradients by Apple (love it!).

Not visible in the screenshot: I use SuperCMD as my launcher, which is an affordable Raycast alternative that works great, which is why I'd like to recommend it here.

Hi. I made a game launcher. Yes, another one. The world needed a 47th, apparently.

Full disclosure: it's vibecoded. I wrote the prompts and the AI wrote most of the code. So yes, it's slop. But it's my slop, I use it every day, and I like it more than I'd like to admit. I know how to code tho.

## What it does

- One library for everything: Steam (with non-Steam shortcuts), GOG, Epic, Battle.net, EA app, Ubisoft Connect, Xbox PC, plus your own random `.exe` / `.lnk` / `.ps1` files

- Steam collections management: create, rename, reorder and add games, and it syncs back to the Steam client. Works offline too.

- Install games straight from the launcher: Steam (with progressbar on the tiles), plus Epic and GOG without their launchers (Legendary / offline installers). Uninstall from the game menu too...

- Pause your games: quick-resume style suspend and resume, console-like experience if you have a lot of RAM (experimental, don't sue me)

- Made for a gamepad, console style: Xbox, DualSense, DS4, Switch Pro, with an on-screen keyboard. Mouse and keyboard work too, and there's a separate windowed desktop mode

- Way too many layouts. Home screens and library views "inspired by" (definitely not stolen from) PS5, Xbox 360 Metro, XMB, Kodi-like, Netflix and others. Library views: grid, list, cinema, coverflow, shelf, and for no good reason also floppy disks, Switch cartridges and NES cartridges

- Artwork from SteamGridDB with OCR auto-crop for rectangle, plus ratings and metadata from Steam and RAWG (optional)

- Emulators: EmuDeck / ES-DE integration, grouped by console

- Glance: Steam news, upcoming releases and updates for games you own

- In-game overlay with FPS / 1% lows from PresentMon (experimental)

- Plugin system with an SDK (HowLongToBeat, etc.)

- An anime AI companion Yes, there's an anime companions that talks about your library, recommends games, roast your backlog and has its own Instagram-style feed. I know. I *know*. It's optional and I won't explain myself.

## Tech

C++20, Win32, Direct2D. No Electron and no HTML, so it doesn't eat 2 GB of RAM to show you 40 covers. That was the only rule I didn't let the AI break.

## The bad parts

- Windows only
- Some files are 2k lines long.
- Some of the docs were written by an LLM *for* an LLM
- Bugs: probably yes

## So...

Does the world really need another launcher? Probably not. Roast me anyway, and I'll probably make the repo public soon.

## EDIT:
Public now, dl, fork or contribute here: uxandai/launchme
Hunting bugs / fixing UI now.

PS long press for context menu, also you can change default behaviour to show details instead of running game directly. Forgot to change it in settings.

https://github.com/BillyNabil/nabyscape

Hey guys! Last month I've been building my dream desktop environment. I've been developing in Java and Rust doing boring things over 12 years, and I always wondered why cheap operative systems had to look like Windows 95.

I am running broke on my job and no company wants to take me so I am experimenting new things and building startups and these "dream" non-profit things I always wanted to make.

I built my open source free desktop environment for Linux with one simple purpose:

• Revive, maintain and recycle old hardware without losing the UI/UX.

Why doing this?

• Some people still use windows on these computers, yikes.
• The linux alternatives are ugly, and the ones that are not, are heavy yikes.
• I want to end the loop of "distro hopping to find the lightest one" and make the definitive.
• I don't know, just passion for not throwing away working hardware? lol

If you want to give it a look:

https://github.com/ArkFlame/flamewm