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Currently Linux and I think BSD, and the creator has said he wants to support MacOS and Windows, though those will only be included in the paid product.

On Linux and BSD, it supports Wayland and X11, though Wayland is better supported.

ie, Quickshell will forever stay completely free for free operating sysems.

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Weirdly, the fact that the Windows and MacOS versions will be paid makes me more optimistic.

Customizing at least the Windows window manager isn't for the faint of heart and its architecture doesn't have a lot in common with Linux so such an effort is very far from a straightforward port, and as a result most Linux desktop software and especially stuff that deeply integrates with the desktop environment is basically never ported or the port is incomplete, buggy, short lived, etc.

KDE4 was supposed to fully support Windows and 15+ years later I'm fairly sure that dream is dead.

I'd probably pay to skin Windows if it worked really well (fast and no flashes of unskinned stuff). I've wanted to tinker with that for ages but I don't even know where to begin.

Windowblinds works.

I was remembering this from when? 20 years ago? I was using Linux already but have to use Windows at work and couldn't tolerate not being able to change things to my liking

Windhawk[1] has some plugins for styling (using XAML). I don't really style anything apart from removing the "Recommended" section from the start menu, so I'm not sure how fast styles get applied.

[1]: https://windhawk.net

I expect Windows to be easier than Mac, especially if attempting to respect SIP, though I've not done much research yet and don't plan to until the Linux version is in a state I'm happy with or I'm forced to heavily use a Windows/Mac machine and need to make it bearable.

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