if you have direct contacts with Brave devs team, Can you ask them the following Questions on your community call ? this is detailed request but you can shorten it after grasping the concept
Will they ever work in future on creating Custom OS which is based on Windows 11 for a much better browsing and overall PC experience ?
The reason for this Question and request is that working on a custom OS which directly modifies the windows 11 OS will help in creating better technology such as Antivirus Integration and System Wide VPN integration(Currently i believe both the chromium as well as the Windows 11 aren’t capable of achieving the same, especially VPN, while browser VPNs just provide the VPN connection for the browser, it doesnt change any connection of the system connection settings, So having the ability of changing and protecting the internet connection of entire system and not just limiting to a browser would be great… this also applies for antivirus programmes… currently, we need to use separate apps if we need System wide VPN and antivirus…But i believe an improvement would be controlling all of them just by using one application which is just a browser where i think the devs need to change some system codes of windows 11 os to achieve this fantastic control…
This video is a detailed explanation of changing everything including all the icons
this one is basic for changing just a few of those things but i want some hi-tech company like brave to do most of these and integrate all of this customizations directly on to the custom OS settings page which is based on Windows 11 by changing/editing some codes, especially due to Win 11 taskbar isn’t good at customization as win 7/8.1.
Maybe Windows 2000 and XP is just too old but if Win 7 and 8.1 can be supported this far, it’s only for their beauty, Speed and Performance… These Lightweight OSes such as Win 7 and 8.1 are far more superior to win 10 and 11 in terms of speed and performance so by making Win 11 Super lightweight by removing cortana, preinstalled apps, disabling all kinds of tracking, reducing the windows process to maximum lowest possible count and retaining the Win 7/8.1 beautiful icons(which shares the same) by just a click of a button without going through installation processes and integrating classic windows photo viewer would make it awesome… All the Classic Windows 7/8.1 themes, start menu and icon personalization should be directly integrated in the Settings page of custom OS made by brave team which is based on windows 11.
Microsoft Change in their logo designs says it all, at first, while Windows XP and Windows 7 came out, especially Windows 7, the logos were too colorful and they were too good at offering customization and more user control but as the evolution passes by, the logos were getting darker and darker, specifically the current blue one which keeps getting darker, the removal of colors of win 7 logo on the later operating system also indicates the removal of customization, user control and freedom.
With Brave Wallet and Brave Search which i believe brave team is obsessed with, especially the Brave wallet, there is no end point coming that easily, the development for these will go on forever and ever and there is already way too plenty of alternatives for search engine and crypto wallets… However, when it comes to Custom Windows based OSes, there isn’t any well known company doing this, most of the custom OS builds are fan made projects or indie, So if a Californian hi-tech company like brave were meant to take on projects like this, it will give them a huge boost in popularity, respect and fan base of at-least of 100 million users which i believe are users count of people who like windows 7 and 8.1 and still wish they could go back to it if there were drivers support for new hardwares still made available today for win 7 and 8.1… The Speed, Performance and design feels so different compared to 11 and if brave wanted it, with enough effort, Brave team could bring those exact same feels of win 7/8.1 on win 11 with huge performance boost and more private OS feel…
I Strongly Believe Microsoft won’t do it as they start to believe “what they do as New is Right and it’s better and right idea to scrap off the older designs” which according to me is morally wrong… if Microsoft was a responsible company, they will facilitate a way to preserve all of the classic design and styles of icons and themes on the latest windows versions but they just scrap it completely without any feelings and emotions… Microsoft became irresponsible to focus on little things and now start to care more about preinstalling apps, trackers and injecting ads, ads, ads, ads and more ads…
With Custom OS Projects, You start it, You finish it in a meaningful amount of reasonable time, What’s the real benefit of doing this ? It will earn an identity for Brave team and boost the company’s respect and popularity for doing things which the stock version of windows won’t be able to do it and moreover if people were to buy for Microtransactions in games, people will most likely do it for extraordinary themes if they were meant to be offered by directly integrating the purchase on the settings page of custom OS
Brave can add more themes by hiring ui designers and easily charge 20$ for each theme and 249$ for lifetime upgrade to use all of themes for free… the business model is more similar to elegant themes https://www.elegantthemes.com/
This is much more profitable and will give a huge boost in popularity as compared to brave search, brave talk monthly subscription and brave wallet which is free to use… so i hope brave will be wise enough to change their focus on what others weren’t doing and going to a place where there will be less competition… I’m Not saying that themes dont exist right now, they do, but they aren’t organized and lack compatibility… we need a group of devs who can give assurance to use a software by giving strong affirmation that using this specific software made by them won’t break any existing win 11 settings and lifetime bug fixes will be offered.
Developing custom OS will also facilitate to implement these two requests…
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Imaging Win 12 coming out in Aug 2025 and Microsoft does something terrible and unacceptable on it during launch and people start saying “Guys, I’m just going to wait for Brave Software Inc. to release the custom OS version of this edition of windows which will be more lightweight and private.” How does this feel ?
Thanks for reading, as a lover of brave browser, i want the brave team to evolve and see my dream wishes comes true. Really not going to update to win 10 and win 11 as long as i possibly can until i run out of option to purchase older hardwares where the stocks for it aren’t available anywhere.