Did anyone else read this in a squeaky voice?
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This is exactly what MS has been doing. They will have a “preview” edition of “new windows” sometime in the next 5 years that is built entirely on GNU/Linux with a port of the windows shell on top.
I think this is actually possible. The (terribly inconvenient and piecemeal) change from Control Panel to Settings has involved making a lot of the Windows configuration options accessible through PowerShell and .NET (which is actually a good thing - it makes it much easier to administrate a system remotely via command prompt vs RDP, and it makes it easier to configure the system programmatically). It's not complete yet, but I could see that in the future the Windows user environment is entirely built on top of .NET, at which point you could theoretically run it on any OS that supports .NET.
Except that would be negative not positive. Microsoft is all about making lots of money and measuring KPI.
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It's already partially there with WSL. Still has a long way to go. But it isn't completely rediculous.
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Shut up about the "year of the linux desktop".
It has been the so called year of the linux desktop ever since linux was a thing.
Honestly I thought they would abandon doing the kernel awhile back and going the apple route of freebsd but it never happened.
And the license pricing will only adjust for inflation.
WSL will truly be the "Windows Subsystem for Linux", as foretold in the prophecy.
lmao, if this actually happens, i'm imagining IBM towards windows would be like
"oh, I fancy, meeting you here, you lil bitch"
Wsl is the start of that