Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

1. winapps

   1 14 15,734 8.4 Shell

   Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps/

   

   What percentage of MS Office user can, in your estimation, complete the steps as described in this readme?

   https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

   I'd estimate <1%

2. SaaSHub

   www.saashub.com featured

   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. MixiD

   2 1 71 6.0 C++

   Unofficial Linux control panel for the Audient iD series interfaces

   

   Some hope for ESI, maybe: https://kb.esi-audio.com/?goto=KB00337EN

   If it's one of those and class compliant, you might be able to access all of it through alsamixer or one of the many frontends (maybe too many, maybe one for you): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsamixer

   The Audient situation appears to be a proper nightmare realm with non-class compliant stuff, but there is a tool with a list of caveats longer than you might want to deal with: https://github.com/TheOnlyJoey/MixiD

   It's more best case scenario as an escape hatch and less problem solved, but it's something.

4. portmaster

   3 208 13,477 9.0 Go

   🏔 Love Freedom - ❌ Block Mass Surveillance

   

   I admire your effort to increase user privacy but it's very difficult to argue that allowing a piece of proprietary closed-source software to make fundamental changes to your operating system is a good idea.

   For starters, it doesn't explain what exactly it does. This is all I could see on the info page:

   > Privacy Enablement Center: Politely ask already installed Windows 10/11 to phone home less, or add Privacy Enhancing DNS Proxy to already installed Windows, in order to block Telemetry, Windows Updates, OneDrive, builtin advertisements, tracking of your location and other types of potentially unwanted Windows network activity — making Windows 10/11 completely quiet online — something competitor’s tools can’t achieve.

   That sounds an awful lot like using the hosts file or a firewall such as Portmaster[1] to block known tracking domains, no?

   [1] https://safing.io/

5. reactos

   4 173 17,903 9.9 C

   A free Windows-compatible Operating System

   

   Kinda off-topic, but I wonder if a hypothetical OS that reimplements the Windows APIs (like ReactOS[0], but with perfect modern hardware support) would be better for end users than a Linux distro with a modern DE.

   In the past, this hypothetical OS would be a revolution. But I feel that, in recent years, this gap is not as big anymore and Linux supports way more apps than in the past. Such an OS might even not be relevant anymore, even if it exists.

   Do I have a blind spot on this? Is there value in having a "working ReactOS" as of 2026?

   [0] https://reactos.org/

6. mc

   5 13 941 9.5 C

   Midnight Commander's repository (by MidnightCommander)

   

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