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Was hoping this would be about porting some of the features from desktop Linux over to Windows. I have to use Windows at work and it feels like I'm missing an a
by Sylos 9y ago
Was hoping this would be about porting some of the features from desktop Linux over to Windows. I have to use Windows at work and it feels like I'm missing an arm everytime.
Mainly because Windows doesn't allow keyboard shortcuts to be rebound and the defaults often require two hands, which with the mouse normally in my second hand is really annoying and not particularly fast.
Other things I'd like:
- Ability to bind clicking the left and right mouse button together to middle mouse click (allows you to just click in the middle on laptop touchpads).
- Tabs in the file manager.
- Workspaces, in a usable form. Windows 7 doesn't have them and it's not legal for us to use Windows 10 on anything that's connected to the internet. And when I do use Windows 10 / Server 2016 in isolated playground VMs, then its implementation makes me feel like some old person who forgets about applications that they have open, because there's no indication of other workspaces existing, nor the applications in them. The shortcut for switching between workspaces being one of those two-hand-shortcuts also means that checking workspaces to see what's in them is not viable.
- A functioning search. I do not understand how you manage to make basic system search as broken as it is on Windows.
- The dream would be a tiling window mmanager and an actual functional terminal.
I know, this is not achievable without third party software, which I can't really install for security reasons, so yeah, this is unfortunately a pipe dream.
- KindOne 9y agoI've used these a lot on my Windows XP/7 machines, both are opensource and have not been updated in awhile. VirtuaWin - https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtuawin/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtuawin/ Locate32 - https://locate32.cogit.net/ https://locate32.cogit.net/