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For the longest time I would fight with Windows to get a plain black task bar and active window title bar. And I mean #000000 as in fully black with white text.

For the longest time I would fight with Windows to get a plain black task bar and active window title bar. And I mean #000000 as in fully black with white text. In Windows 7 you could kind of trick it into doing it with registry alone but after that I always had to do uxtheme.dll hacks to get it to work. Then one day I just stopped and started using Linux on my desktop and MacOS on my laptop. Whatever game MS thinks it's playing ... they are losing market share now in both business and education. All they really have left is DRM heavy gaming.

speed_spread 5y ago
> DRM heavy gaming. As someone who's now playing League of Legends from his Linux desktop, even that is going away.
- minimouse 5y ago
  Microsoft has a lot of gaming IP that they'll only release games for on Xbox and Windows. They'll likely try using DRM and anti-cheat to avoid the likes of WINE or maybe they won't even feel the need to. It's just more effort for users anyway. And Riot Games has VALORANT. DRM heavy gaming is not going away but only just beginning. Off topic, but Microsoft can even bypass Steam and use their own (terrible) Microsoft Store and Xbox apps on Windows as they have hard to resist exclusive content. Just like Epic Games did with their store. Platforms, not services!
Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
> All they really have left is DRM heavy gaming. AFAIK, it's not the DRM that's a problem, it's anti-cheat. Cheat software needs to evade detection of both its install and execution, and anti-cheat has to be able to detect those. I imagine writing API emulation that works with anti-cheat is pretty difficult. Now I'm curious about how anti-cheat could work in a Linux environment. Cheat software likely doesn't need root to benefit the player, but it will certainly need to run as root to avoid detection from the anti-cheat software which will definitely run as root. Of course, Linux gamers are probably going to raise an eyebrow about a game component wanting root permissions, but how else are you going to detect cheats?

speed_spread 5y ago

> DRM heavy gaming. As someone who's now playing League of Legends from his Linux desktop, even that is going away.

minimouse 5y ago
Microsoft has a lot of gaming IP that they'll only release games for on Xbox and Windows. They'll likely try using DRM and anti-cheat to avoid the likes of WINE or maybe they won't even feel the need to. It's just more effort for users anyway. And Riot Games has VALORANT. DRM heavy gaming is not going away but only just beginning. Off topic, but Microsoft can even bypass Steam and use their own (terrible) Microsoft Store and Xbox apps on Windows as they have hard to resist exclusive content. Just like Epic Games did with their store. Platforms, not services!

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago

> All they really have left is DRM heavy gaming. AFAIK, it's not the DRM that's a problem, it's anti-cheat. Cheat software needs to evade detection of both its install and execution, and anti-cheat has to be able to detect those. I imagine writing API emulation that works with anti-cheat is pretty difficult. Now I'm curious about how anti-cheat could work in a Linux environment. Cheat software likely doesn't need root to benefit the player, but it will certainly need to run as root to avoid detection from the anti-cheat software which will definitely run as root. Of course, Linux gamers are probably going to raise an eyebrow about a game component wanting root permissions, but how else are you going to detect cheats?