Blackbox for Windows
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Started >30d ago
Why the fuck is this so obscure? This is the solution to everyone's woes with both new and old Windows explorers and gives a nix-like environment on a win32 kernel
Has anyone considered maintaining and updating it to work with newer versions of Windows and fix some of the problems it has?
Xobolite's theme fucking sucks ass and I uninstalled it after 5 minutes, so I'm using bb4zero on Windows 7 and it works fine outside of a few issues with bbleanskin (if a window freezes or crashes it'll take down blackbox with it)
https://github.com/xzero450/bbclean-xzero450
I'd love to see this become relevant again or atleast have all of its problems fixed. it's a shame that http://blackbox4windows.com is down
I would fix this thing my damn self but I don't know how I'd get myself set up. Never worked with this language.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230418190955/http://blackbox4windows.com/index.php?/topic/265-part-of-blackboxexe-bbleanskin-crash-springexe970/ This problem is probably the most critical issue I've experienced with Blackbox. If a program freezes or crashes, it can take down the entire shell with it. I'd love to fix this. Other choice would be begging AI to do it for me which wouldn't be a nice experience
>>51788
>a nix-like environment on a win32 kernel
I miss Microsoft Interix. I ran a legit Gentoo GNU/Windows system some fifteen years ago, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter with the SUA POSIX subsystem running atop the NT kernel, side-by-side with Win32. POSIX applications compiled and running completely natively in Windows. This was not stinky Cygwin hackery, it was pure and wholesome.
that sounds fucking awesome. I want to do something like that. Was it fairly easy to spin up?
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/54028074/#54028112 i might actually try this in a week or two once i have time. this looks really fucking cool
>>52094 Not really easy, no.
SUA needed an extra 500-something MB installer download from MS which I'm sure is nearly impossible to source now, which was a basic early debian system (like a Gentoo stage3 tarball). I utilized Portage Prefix, and even then I was just barely in the portage tree upgradeability window of that really old prefix stage3. I would expect it to act like a very legacy Gentoo system right now in regards to maintenance.
>>52095 EEK! You found me!
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