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Why not just include in the OS?
by FrustratedMonky 1y ago
Why not just include in the OS?
- daveguy 1y agoThey're really good at keeping out functional bloat, not so much with ad and telemetry bloat.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoMarketing driven development, its the best programming approach.
- SirFatty 1y agoI've wondered that same thing for the last 30 years.
- d3vnull 1y agoIncluding it in the OS is a much bigger support commitment.
- orphea 1y agoYep. I, for one, am certainly glad that PowerToys are separate and they can be updated/iterated upon more often.
- justusthane 1y agoI think PowerToys are sort of a testing/QA playground. Features from PowerToys are sometimes adopted into Windows.
- hu3 1y agoThey would have to support it for 20 years or more.
- tracker1 1y ago"power" as in Power-user... A lot of power user tools aren't typically installed in consumer oriented OSes, see MacOS and Windows. Beyond this, PowerToys can take third party contributions and evolve far faster/easier than Windows official release software.
- timothyduong 1y agoI wish they removed a lot from Windows... for a consumer user. Installing Prof/Enterprise editions and there is still bloatware installed, it is so unappealing!
- TiredOfLife 1y agoEvery thread about windows has everyone moaning about bloat. Some tools from the Powertoys Suite are usable, but the whole thing is incredibly clunky and slow even compared to the React native infested Windows 11