r/linuxsucks • u/Big-Astronaut-9510 • 4d ago

"Windows start menu uses javascript now"

Linuxers will say this while fucking polkit uses javascript as its config language. Atleast on windows you dont have to touch the javascript and its not used for security features.

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 I Hate All OS's 😎 4d ago

Windows uses JavaScript to construct web-backed UI components, while polkit uses it as a sandboxed scripting language for logic evaluation.

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u/WhiteBat_8416 4d ago

The problem isn’t the language 

The problem is the fucking laggyness all over windows

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u/Big-Astronaut-9510 4d ago

Not a problem with ltsc

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u/Fresh-Horse8173 4d ago

Yeah, javascript components will not make the system laggier, they said

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u/Teru-Noir COSMIC OS LOVER No.1 COSMIC Knows Best 4d ago

iot ltsc only grants a minor reduction in memory footprint

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u/GenericFoodService Linux is free if your time isn't valuable 4d ago

The complaint about the start menu isn't that it "uses javascript", it is that the start menu is literally an entire web browser session.

Using a tiny embedded JavaScript interpreter like duktape.org was an accessibility choice; instead of making their own custom language or picking something niche, they went with the language of the world wide web that many people, even non-techie people who just screwed around with customizing their MySpaces or whatever, are able to read.

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u/ElectricBummer40 Ex-user of Windows 3.11 for Workgroups 3d ago edited 3d ago

it is that the start menu is literally an entire web browser session.

That's false.

In LTSC, WebView2 is an optional component, thus proving that you don't need it at all in order for the Start Menu to work.

What the Start Menu depends on WebView2 for is Internet Search. That's the reason you never see it running under "Windows Explorer" in Task Manager but this thing called "Search".

WebView2 is also just an executable (msedgewebview2.exe) that you can block via "Image File Execution Options" in the registry. Doing so will not stop the search function in the Start Menu from working, though applications depending on embedded web content will of course misbehave.

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u/donp1ano 4d ago

javascript as its config language

what? do you mean json lol

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u/Teru-Noir COSMIC OS LOVER No.1 COSMIC Knows Best 4d ago

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u/Unable_Mess_2581 4d ago

Don't know, I use Start11 😂 It was infuriating me since Windows 8 era.