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Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it isn’t a Microsoft sanctioned solution, then multiple third party solutions exists that fix it.

That's not how this works. If it's not a Microsoft-sancioned solution, it literally cannot be fixed no matter how much effort you put in. You need an API to work with Windows. If Microsoft does not provide you with an API, you can't do it. And even if you find a way to hack together something, you have zero guarantee an update won't just come along and fuck it. Linux distros are open source, you can change quite literally any thing about them. That is what that person was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the thing is, microsoft does provide stable, well-documented and backwards-compatible apis for just about anything imaginable, and even if that's not enough, you can try interacting with the kernel directly