keyring VS ExplorerPatcher

pi@raspberrypi:/etc $ pip show keyring Name: keyring Version: 23.13.1 Summary: Store and access your passwords safely. Home-page: https://github.com/jaraco/keyring Author: Kang Zhang Author-email: [email protected] License: Location: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages Requires: importlib-metadata, jaraco.classes, jeepney, SecretStorage Required-by:

There were 2 major pain points for me:

* USB access is more difficult than just plugging something in.

* Debugging tools like perf, RR, etc were either unsupported because they needed hardware counters or custom builds (no system headers in apt to help either).

* The VM takes a lot of disk space.

The rest of the experience was fairly smooth. WSL2 can access the entire filesystem through /mnt//. Windows -> WSL is a bit janky, but it works. GPU access is supported. Network access works. You can use a remote X session to get GUIs working, though you need to be comfortable with linux. Unfortunately having DISPLAY set caused pip to hang for long periods due to [1], but apparently that's been resolved.

[1] https://github.com/jaraco/keyring/issues/531

I used the keyring command which stores credentials securely in macOS keychain or Windows credential locker, etc. but you could also have it read a text file stored in a secure location of something else, lots of ways to do it

You can use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to change the hotkey

> Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing on the table

It also removes a leg from the table, the one labelled 'usability'.

Attaching a 3rd-party leg to fill the gap helps (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher), but it's not an ideal solution

ExplorerPatcher

I had more problems with it being wide, merging all app windows in a single icon, showing only icon rather then app title, and not being able to move to top of screen

That may be fixed with https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher which restores win10 bar, there's no builtin solution to any of the above afaik

Thanks for letting me know. I looked into it, and apparently it's still even possible to activate on later versions of Windows with registry edits and helper software: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/167

Not going to install something that seems so vague, but I do use ExplorerPatcher [1] on my Windows 11 machines to basically re-create Windows 10 UI and fix all of the annoyances I have with Windows 11. I've got the old right click menu, the old task bar, the old alt-tab interface, pretty much the whole thing. Only reason I use Windows 11 over Windows 10 is because Windows 11 seems to handle my triple monitor setup better, especially when waking up from sleep.

[1] - https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher