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steviey19on Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI

Buried in this announcement about Windows 11 improvements is a fascinating admission: the Windows 11 Start menu has been built using React this entire time. Microsoft is now migrating it to their native WinUI3 framework to improve performance and reduce interaction latency.

This explains a lot about why the Start menu has felt sluggish compared to Windows 10.

The React → WinUI migration is the most technically interesting detail imo.

steviey19on Ask HN: Turn Key Ubuntu Kiosk Mode

Amazing, thank you (and chatgpt).

steviey19on Ask HN: Turn Key Ubuntu Kiosk Mode

How do I make sure only the electron app is displayed at boot? Also, one of the apps is a full screen unity game, will this be affected by not having a full desktop loaded?

steviey19on Ask HN: Turn Key Ubuntu Kiosk Mode

Not at all! This is great. I think at a minimum I need some kind of gui with an icon for each binary (something like a very basic app launcher I guess). But what I like about your solution is that it’s about as simple as I was hoping to be able to achieve!