> Mouser

For a second I thought you were talking about the developer Mouser, who wrote a bunch of fantastic tiny and portable utilities for Windows[1].

[1] https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser

Check out Noctalia, it supports multiple Wayland compositors: https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

Seems like it's dead?

> Current Release (0.7 Poki)

> These pages document Bedrock Linux 0.7 Poki which was released on December 17th, 2018.

What most people don't realise is that this enshittification has been ongoing since a long time, about the time of Windows 8 and the introduction of "Metro"/UWP apps. The Control Panel was the first victim - replaced by the shitty Settings app which we saw in Win10. But along the way, MS have been slowly replacing the good ol' small and fast win32 apps with highly bloated UWP versions. It's not just Notepad now, every core Windows app is a UWP app.

People don't realise how much bloat this is. The new Snipping tool for instance is 449 MEGABYTES, whereas it used to be only a few KB in size. Same with Paint, Calculator etc - all bloated UWP apps.

UWP was a mistake, they should've stuck to win32, at least for core apps.

I don't know if it's an option for you, but my workplace provides me with a Citrix VDI that I remote into from my BYOD Linux laptop. So I use the VDI for all the windows-only stuff, and everything else is web-based/has a PWA (like Teams, Outlook, Office etc), which works fine in Linux.