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  • ubuntu.com

    The official website for the Ubuntu operating system

  • Open-Shell-Menu

    Classic Shell Reborn.

    • It is still being updated here:

    https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

    I'd love to hear about other alternatives people have found, but this has reliably shielded me from what MS has done to their start menu for several years now.

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  • Proton-Caller

    Discontinued Run any Windows program through Proton

    • It's funny, I spent the time to get a windows app launching in proton as I was having some issues with the Linux version that I didn't have the time/patience to diagnose and fix myself.

    The launcher is called proton-call ... I changed Steam to use the version of proton to match what the app expected, and it worked pretty cleanly. All said, I do wish it were easier for a separate launcher or third party to include proton as a separate package.

    https://github.com/caverym/proton-caller

  • noTunes

    A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching.

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