Operating Systems

  • Windows Feedback Center Review

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    Ryan Johnson

    I was asked to provide feedback about the Windows Feedback app. I submit a lot of content on there, however I have never received any response from Microsoft. I’m not sure if they actually see my feedback. Make it more feature-full for browsing and finding reports, editing, updating, and removing files from reports, sharing…

  • The Best Way to Maintain Windows 11

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    Ryan Johnson

    Updated Feb 2025 Maintaining a system has always been a pain point, especially on Windows, where getting your OS back up to speed after a fresh reinstall requires manually searching, downloading, installing, and configuring about a hundred apps and individual mods for Windows. As of the past few years, the maintenance story has changed…

  • Install Guide for WinGHCi

    Install Guide for WinGHCi

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    Ryan Johnson

    Date: July 12, 2020 (2020-07-12) Until this year, the Haskell Platform shipped with the WinGHCi interpreter, a GUI version of the GHCi command line interpreter. It’s little more than a glorified command line in a new window, but it is used in this Skillshare Haskell class, so I really wanted to install it to…

  • Linux sucks, and there’s nothing you can do about it

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    Ryan Johnson

    Recently I started working on a startup tech business to implement some of my tech ideas. I got a work-space on campus at University of Memphis and they gave me a desk and computer to work on in a shared work-space area where other entrepreneurs are working. The computer they provided is an iMac,…

  • Transcript of FileSystem Conversation

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    Ryan Johnson

    Below is a transcript of the conversation I had about FileSystems on the Redox-OS Mattermost chat. amdphreak1:08 AM I am researching a new option for filesystems that uses the Associative model of data (graph database model). This will solve alot of problems with maintaining packages and user files across multiple physical media, different lib…

  • Character Map update

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    Ryan Johnson

    Vote for an update to the Character Map application on Windows.

  • Wide Gamut Monitor Support on Windows 10

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    Ryan Johnson

    Wide-gamut monitors are becoming ever more popular, but Microsoft has not made Windows operating system easy to use with wide-gamut monitors and wide-gamut color spaces. sRGB is no longer a given, so this needs to be remedied. Windows Color Management System (WCS) The current Windows Color Management System is miserable. It is completely missing…

  • NixOS and the Linux distribution as a “channel”

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    Ryan Johnson

    I am currently installing and setting up NixOS, a GNU-Linux distribution that lets you configure your system and install apps using a configuration file. The configuration/installation is written in a language of its own called Nix, which is a pure functional language (PFL). If this sounds scary, don’t worry. It’s basically a configuration file…