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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by badsectoracula on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:56PM (#16388095)
> Like seriously buddy, the GUI desktop is now ~40 years old and windows /still/ can't support uninstalling the default desktop and installing your own.

Actually, it is worse: you used to be able to replace the default desktop and install your own from the first versions of Windows up until recently. Now you can't and with Windows 8 Microsoft removed a ton of functionality when it comes to customization (e.g. you cannot disable DWM and you cannot use the classic theme - which was the only one with support for totally customizable color schemes).

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by ChoGGi on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:50PM (#16388489)
>> Like seriously buddy, the GUI desktop is now ~40 years old and windows /still/ can't support uninstalling the default desktop and installing your own.

So these shell replacements I've been using for over a decade don't exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for...

The only time explorer.exe is running on my computer is when I need some special control panel setting.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by GordonS on Friday February 16, 2018 @05:22AM (#16391314)
Most of them seem to be discontinued - can I ask which one you use, and what benefits it has over the standard Windows 10 shell?
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