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They just don't want you to customise your computer in any way, huh.
Soon you'd be prevented from changing your wallpaper.
They'll only allow those generated using Copilot.
"Copilot, change the wallpaper to a DSC20260512.JPG."
"I'm sorry, you can only change the wallpaper to images generated by Copilot!"
"Ok, change the wallpaper to a picture of my Daughter Graduating."
"Sure! Here's a picture of a young woman graduating set to your wallpaper."
"That isn't my daughter, my daughter isn't a blonde white girl with massive tits, please change back to my previous wallpaper."
"Sure, here's a picture of a Scottish Glen."
"My last wallpaper was a photo I took of The Flying Scotsman, also that picture of a Scottish glen has an offensive stereotype of a Scottish Man fucking a sheep while drinking a bottle labeled 'Buckfast and Heroin'."
"Here is a picture of a Scottish Glen."
Microsoft UI "designers" need to be beaten with frozen braids of 3 foot long licorice ropes.
https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/
Costs money but works with only minor quirks when switching between iGPU and dGPU.
just saying, if I have to install some sketchy software to restore functionality that has existed on the platform flawlessly for almost four decades then it's not a viable platform anymore.
Why would applications have to consider relayouting? Isn't that entirely in the hand of the Windows taskbar?
It shows the window groups, windows, pops over previews of windows or tabs in a consistent style, presumably owned by the taskbar itself. At no point do applications themselves control their positions or size in the taskbar or the taskbar popovers.
Luckily, someone has got an actual solution. Check out WindHawk. I use it to run a vertical taskbar.
Microsoft doesn't have to compete very much. They're not a monopoly, probably, but a strict definition. Apple exists. Linux exists and is better than the terminal hell the average person thinks about. But that's not enough pressure to make microsoft actually try to appeal to customers. Most people are basically stuck.
We should break up all of these companies that are so big they can coast with shitty products for years.
It is lost technology… only the powerful ancients could accomplish such.
Or those familiar with the dark arts.
Dont care, its where the task bar should go, and I should be able to configure it.
Install Linux Problem Solved.
This phrase should be made a bumper sticker. Or spraypainted anywhere.
Microsoft wants to use the Taskbar for advertising. They can't do that if users can move it around or hide it.
What this essentially means is that when the taskbar sits at the bottom, Windows and third-party apps know exactly how much horizontal space they have to work with.
Ah, so I assume they will remove support for any resolutions other than 1920x1080, since they need a consistent horizontal size, and that's the most common.
Windhawk and ExplorerPatcher will allow this while windows still resize correctly, so it's a mystery to me as to why MSFT won't do it.
Good explanation. They couldn’t checks notes be fucked
Is there no fix for this? I hate having the taskbar on my main monitor and ive been looking everywhere for a way to move it to another monitor. =/
wait, did they do away with the primary monitor designation?
isn't that like the only thing that makes a "primary monitor" special - the taskbar? why can't you just set another monitor as primary?
I don't use win11, if it's not obvious, lol
