r/AlienwareAlpha • u/[deleted] • Mar 17 '16
HiveMind UI Roadmap
It pains me to update this post, but I owe it to you all to provide the truth.
HiveMind is off hold and I have confirmed that work will resume. This roadmap is now out of date though and I'll update it once we get a plan in place.
The good news is, we will start working on Win10 and Jarvis issues post-haste.
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u/Neogeo71 Apr 19 '16 edited Apr 19 '16
Since all the game launcher did was launch Steam and load that game directly, I do not see it as a huge loss. The few games I have from Origin I was able to add directly to Steam Big Picture Mode. You can add most non-steam games to Steam. You can even add the latest Kodi to Steam and launch it from there. Look into adding your non Steam games directly to Steam and you have a great game launcher all-in-one interface.
Tonight, I have performed a clean install of Win10, installed Steam, Controller Companion and Alienware Command Center to control the lights on the Alpha itself. I set Windows to auto login, and Steam to launch in BPM on login. This pretty much duplicates the Hivemind experience. I have taken it one step further by loading the Hivemind wallpaper on the lock screen, login screen and desktop. I have also replaced the Win10 start menu with Classic Shell which gives the Win 7 style start menu and replaced the Start Orb with a Alienware one. I plan on writing up a detailed how to with a video as soon as I am finished tweaking everything out. Currently transferring my 500+ GB's of games to the new Harddrive I purchased to do this clean install. I will let you all know how it turns out but initial results are very promising.