Open Source

30984 readers

458 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Any good free, open source UWP Windows apps? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Looking to replace most of the Microsoft garbage with functional, native, good-looking apps.

Already using FluentWeather, FluentCast, Screenbox, Wino Mail, Unigram, AniMoe (Anilist client)...

Wanted Windows to ID Fluetro PDF as a PDF app, but for some reason that isn't happening...

Any other suggestions are also welcome...

top 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Dotdev 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fluent launcher is a powertoys run/spotlight alternative for windows if you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I use Flow Launcher for that, but thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you don't need the “advanced” features of VLC's desktop app, the UWP app is beautiful and modern looking, while also providing that "opens ALL the formats" VLC UX.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Screenbox replaced VLC UWP for me because it's literally VLC on steroids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I use the uwp on Xbox and I'm glad it exists but its a stale project at the moment.

Status update: The VLC for WinRT app is retired (deprecated), there is no more development being done on it. We advice you to use the classic VLC app instead. For UWP support in your LibVLC apps, have a look at libvlcsharp.

https://github.com/videolan/vlc-winrt?tab=readme-ov-file

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You can't mix UWP and "functional" in the same phrase. Does not compute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lots of independent UWP apps that work perfectly for me... But fair enough 😂.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

UWP is a waste of screen space compared to the older Win32 apps. Not even Microsoft managed to make the UWP Windows Settings work decently, and they openly admit it by keeping the old panels around for most advanced tasks.

UWPs lack of density and structure totally removed whatever benefit we got from having larger 20"+ screens. It's sad to get larger screens and waste all the space with the UI instead of actual content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Microsoft is useless. But the indie devs I've seen make UWP apps sure as hell understand how UWP should work.