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  • Not that guy but another: No. You? Because Microsoft is a lot of things but walled gardens is something out of Cupertino. Not Redmond.

    You can call MS shitty and I would fully concur but a walled gardens it’s not.

    You don’t need ad, Exchange/outlook, m365, entraid. They’re nice for most users but you can live without and use other services in their place on any MS platform.

    Now, iOS… Have fun with that.



  • I somewhat got your arguments. I just don’t feel the same about current day powertoys. They are not needed, don’t add anything useful and don’t work in a lot of setups. Current day powertoys are not what powertoys of the past where.

    MS being focussed on the wrong shit to soon: well that has been true ever since the company existed. In the end looking back each and every innovation they did was needed but just years too soon and way too rough around the edges. I Guess we’ll see the same with ai. Some things will stick and be used by others but refined.


  • All the things you say are mandatory are a distraction at best. And hog a lot of resources.

    Spotlight run: adds nothing except being a slow down. It’s not that different from the standard search/run box. It just looks nicer. Way nicer.

    Fancy zones: does not work reliable on multi monitor/big monitor setup. Useless in my use case. Has been for several years.

    Fie renamer: … Really? This is a power tot these days?

    Screen ruler: i don’t need rulers on my desktop, i need them in my apps.

    Color picker: same. I do not have any use case for it. This is standard app functionality.

    Every time i installed powertoys in the last 4/5 years i shrugged, cursed at Fancy zones for not working in my setup and removing it after a few days.

    That’s the same usage loop as rainmaker or most stardock tools by the way. Good ideas but fucks up to many things.

    The new tabbed shell. (Or not so new anymore these days) Now that is a real powertoy. Or the lnx subsysteem.