• chocrates@piefed.world
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    3 days ago

    There were rumours that windows would become a Linux desktop environment for a while, I can see the business case for it but the migration seems impossible

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      3 days ago

      I wonder about that. I’m probably not thinking of some very important things. Edge, Office, Active Directory, Co-Pilot, a Windows DE, userland programs(could even be GNU+Windows, don’t want to forget notepad and minesweeper), Powershell, DirectX and SDKs. I think they could do it in a year or two. I just figure, if they could improve Windows in the cloud, they would have done it. And they’ve already got a massive head start with Azure Linux.

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      3 days ago

      Maybe it’d be a new “Windows S Mode” situation.
      Got a new cheapo laptop? Enjoy our Secure Windows Home Basic (Linux + Windows DE) and install your apps ONLY from the Windows Store (that we made sure run in the new environment)
      Need full Windows? Upgrade to Pro.

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        3 days ago

        I wouldn’t hate a closed windows ecosystem on Linux. We would get the kernel patches and more software would work. Even if we didn’t get kernel patches because windows is scummy and ignores the gpl, a common abi would still be amazing