No .NET π what's still running after that?
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Windows and the fascist company behind it needs to die.
Windows losing noticeable numbers of users is a huge net gain for society. Hopefully it continues, regardless of Microslop's actions.
Microsoft is losing Builders fast.
Good.
This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.
No, Windows needs to lose more users. Hope they never change.
If you are techy enough you could install a cracked version of w11 pro or LTSC, then use amiliorated or any other decrapifier. As well Chris titus script can help. This will remove all telemetry and various MS malware.
Im using it since a while to game and it's great. Also not memory intensive and no shit running in the background or reinstalling after updates
in sum, linux with backwards compatability (a lazy excuse for not cleaning stuff up) and DOS commands. oh, and closed source.
What's wrong with .NET?
If there was a viable Windows Lite, wouldnβt everyone just use that?
Right? Like if this exists, what's their draw for users to use the dogshit version?
No, I'd use Linux
I wouldn't, but many of my friends that I finally convinced to switch to Linux would definitely consider it. They switched specifically because MS went too far and made things too awful, and gaming in Linux is now quite decent. They aren't using Linux for the open source philosophy, or to tinker in ways that Windows blocked decades ago, or even the free price tag.
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Are you assuming that Windows users would do the smart thing? They've already failed.
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why would they? the telemetry, spying and bloatware is the whole idea for them. At least for regular users. We are the product and the data they harvest from us and ads they force on us is the point. And why would they care, majority of people just sticks with whatever was presented to them first. No matter how much bloat and spyware they add, majority will never care enough to do anything about it because it doenst directly affect them beyond slowing the computer down, which they think will be solved by buying a new one.
.NET is just a runtime, not problematic at all, and definitely doesnβt deserve to be lumped in with ads, spyware, and AI.
We should also get rid of the Windows C++ Redistributable packages as well!
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It's probably Microsofts best product
Probably Microsoft's best stupidest name too, except maybe renaming the remote desktop app to "Windows App".
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Hah! They don't care about "builders" or users. They care about business. Specifically large enterprises the have too many people to care about a single employee's individual productivity.
Microsoft caters mostly to them and is quite good at that.
But if you're an end user, gamer, or individual consumer, just move to Linux already. They don't care about you.
Yeah, the proprietary software grift is all about extorting companies with legal liability, hostage data, etc.
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The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming
You're forgetting the huge and much more lucrative market that is businesses. We literally can't switch away from windows because every single piece of engineering software we use only exists for windows. We can't program anything, configure anything, deploy anything or service anything if we're not running windows. Oh, a VM solution you suggest? wrong!, because the drivers needed to interface with the hardware are wonky as hell as is but inside VMs it gets the job borked half the time making my job unnecessary frustrating.
Ouch!
The good news is you'll get invited to Cobol/AS400/Mainframe conventions if eventually you're the only ones left on Windows.
Those folks have similar challenges, but are great to party with after a day of conference talks.
I used to work at a place that had dot matrix printers for printing on envelopes, there was some complicated reason why this couldn't be upgraded, anyway the computer that ran that was an Acorn, with all its three mouse button goodness, it could only save to floppy disk and the only supplier of old floppy disks is like this one random dude who seems to have bought up the global supply of floppy disks back when they were discontinued. Apparently he makes bank.
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If you want Windows Lite then you might as well commit to Linux.
Plenty of YouTube videos on tons of different distros for anyone to find their starter distro that's similar to Windows.
Closest thing to that is using Windows Enterprise. Here is previous PSA of mine...
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PSA, for people sticking to Windows:
You can get a reasonable level of privacy by installing Windows Enterprise via RUFUS, which also has options for removing restrictions during installation. Massgravel is used to activate your copy of Windows, the Github also having .ISOs for you to use with RUFUS.
ShutUp10 is a piece of software that goes a step further, allowing you to toggle off many bad things, uninstall Microsoft's AI, and gives a description of what you are tweaking does. The premium version also automatically applies your settings at all times, reverting Microsoft's constant tweaking of your settings.
I'm a 30-year ex-Windows developer - started with C/C++ briefly, moved to Java for a few years, and then to C#/.NET for about 23 years. Good riddance to Microsoft Windows. The keyboard shortcuts may be forever ingrained into my reflexes, but I'd rather use Linux or MacOS.
No concerns about .NET however. It's a cross-platform development framework and works well. It's also quite fast now.
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The author of the blog is living in dreamland. Microsoft will never release Windows Lite because, to management, Windows is a conduit for AI and subscriptions.
Linux is the answer.
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I'm building a gaming PC that's gonna run Linux. To prep, I install my distro of choice (CachyOS) on an old laptop to check it out. It was fantastic. I'm confident saying, unless there's a very specific outlier reason, you don't need Windows anymore.
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to little, not late. Been a avid windows user since `95, used all of them up to 11 no exception, pivoted 3 years ago to linux, and at this point there is literally not a thing that will bring me back. Linux is 1000x better for me, free of charge, more polished, faster, better looking, no BS, and if there IS any bs, i can move to another distro that i like. There is literally not a single thing. Those kernel level anti cheat games... fuck em, i got 1000's of games to play that work on steam and gog and uplay and battle.net and all other platforms flawlessly no problem and been waiting to play em.