Origin shipped with a catalogue baked into two text files and no way to grow it. This release is about that: the catalogue can update itself now, and anyone can hand you a pack of extra tweaks without anyone building a new exe. The interface got a pass too, because a list of checkboxes deserves to look like Windows 11
What's in this release
- The OEM debloater. Bloatynosy now reads the classic desktop programs too, out of the same three uninstall locations the Control Panel reads, and it knows the difference between a trial your laptop's maker was paid to preinstall and a driver you need. McAfee, Norton, Avast, AVG, WildTangent, Booking.com, ExpressVPN, Keeper, CyberLink, Nitro PDF, WPS Office and Candy Crush are named as candidates. Visual C++, the .NET runtimes, Intel chipset and Management Engine, Realtek, NVIDIA and AMD drivers are protected and can't be ticked at all
- Plugins: tweak packs you install and delete. Theres a shelf of extra tweaks now, and it opens from the toolbar next to the search box. A plugin is a text file and nothing else: installing one puts an
.iniin your data folder, removing one deletes it again. No installer, no registry of what you have, no uninstall logic that can get it wrong. Nothing in a plugin is ever executed, and you can read the whole thing in Notepad before you trust it. - A catalogue that updates itself. Settings has a button that fetches the current catalogue from the repo. New entries show up on the next check. You no longer have to wait for a release to get a fix to one line of text.
- A packs panel that behaves like a browser's. It hangs under the icon you pressed with the edges flush, dims the window behind it, and follows the window when you move it. It isn't modal, so you can keep working with it open, and pressing the icon twice doesn't stack two of them
- An interface that follows WinUI. Rounded cards with hairline separators, a capsule search field that turns blue when the caret is in it, round badges with a glyph for what a thing is about, filled buttons for the action and muted ones for the undo. Less chrome between you and the list
- Escape and Ctrl+F from anywhere. Ctrl+F puts the caret in the search box, Escape empties it, the way every other Windows app does it.
- Still one exe, still portable, still WinForms. Still does nothing when it isn't open
Still nothing ticked for you, still nothing written or removed until you say so. The king built a shelf and cleared out the garage.