and developers
Windows developers largely use Windows Server or Enterprise, neither of which have telemetry, spying, ads, or AI, depending on group policy.
I'm a little confused by the inclusion of .NET. Most Windows developers actively use that.
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A lot of games actually require it too
.Net
Why is .NET bad now?
I wonder if they see the constant, gigantic updates to the framework distributable and think that's a bad thing somehow.
With many critical apps still running on Windows only, Windows needs to get worse!
To push those software companies over to embrace Linux finally. Then the users can follow.
Isn’t this just Windows Embedded?
10 years ago I would have said maybe. Now? Practicly everything that you run on Windows will run, in some form or another, on Linux. Even the hard to crack gaming is now becoming a non issue. There really is no point in Windows any longer.
Microsoft is now offering Azure Linux.
well, linus won. He said when they'd write software for linux, he won. I guess he quadruple won, since microslop has their own distro
I had no idea how easy gaming had got since my last attempt with Linux. That was until the most recent Microsoft bugs erased all my files... I was so enraged I didn't even try to recover them, I just installed linux mint. Found out I could indeed play the couple games I've been holding on to windows for. Haven't booted windows since.
Microsoft needs to die.
I remember saying that in the early 2000s...
That's just Windows without a lot of the bad stuff. Microsoft will never do it because they earn money from it.
You need to abandon windows. You know their goals. You know they can't be trusted. Stop giving them chances to get it right and fuck you.
I logged out back in December and haven't used or needed Windows since. Fedora Linux is my pick for a Windows replacement.
What you're describing is the LTSC IoT editions, which are what I run on my Windows boxes.
Seconded. I moved to Win10 LTSC IoT on some, Bazzite on others, and haven't looked back.
I'm never loading naked spyware Win11 again.
When forced to move off win10iot I'll go to win11iot for anything mission critical for windows.
But by then I'd better be 90% MacOS/Linux.
We have that. Its called Arch. And I've done .net development on it.
You probably mean NetCore which is not equal to .NET framework.
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Do i have news for you, youll need .net.
Either for windows stuff, or for your games ( most likely launchers )
What is wrong with .NET, it's very useful when running applications which require it which of course is basically every application in a corporate environment.
But yeah all the other things are fine.
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It's easier to just use Linux.
If a "lite" version removed their ability to spy on you they'd have to charge you $4,000/year for the privilege, just to make up the difference.
windows lite
So you mean Linux? No telemetry? No ads? No AI? No .net? Also just works? Also free? Also free as in beer?
Yeah, people need Linux
.net is also on linux in some capacity. See the *arr stack as an example.
the fact that you list .net shows you dont have the knowledge to make this claim
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