All the things that are easily disabled? -Sounds as foolish as having a distro for changing wallpaper, fonts and color scheme.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Removing .NET wouldn't be a good idea tho.
And Microsoft doesn't care much for gamers on desktops, they'll mostly cater to the Xbox players that runs a basically slimmed down and locked version of Windows.
There's something sad about that text. Feels like someone so addicted to a failing corporate product, that can't even imagine life without it, and will beg for a better version and continuity of the monopoly, instead finding an alternative and moving on with life
Tbf their main userbase comes from it being preinstalled.
Imagine if highschools spent one day in tech classes teaching how to install a new OS instead of microsoft word for the 640th time.
I don't think I would trust it.
they really don't though, especially developers. doing dev work on NixOS for example is like night and day compared to everything else. I can't imagine now not getting work done without NixOS. flakes and stuff just make every build so incredibly easy and because of which no matter where I put the thing I know it's going to work.
Even gaming, outside of a few games, works flawlessly. Hell even pirating now works fairly well. Emulation too. I can pick which cores I want via my gaming nix module and it's all good to go. it's great.
Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it's basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.
Unfortunately, a fair chunk of my convenience comes from the .NET runtime, but sure, removing the rest would be welcome. I highly doubt they'd bother to do this, though, because so many businesses with higher-tolerance older CEOs are fine with remaining on Windows...
It's called TempleOS.
No, nothing other than completely open sourcing the system can save it
But how will they achieve exponential growth if they don't keep putting more stuff into all their products
Microsoft is like a burning high-rise that will occasionally put out the fire in one section, and start another in another section. And there’s billions of people in there.
There are other high-rises, which very rarely catch fire at all, and you’ve tried to tell people to get out and go into the other ones but they don’t.
You’ve watched the microsoft fire burn for almost 30 years. Or more. You’re just astounded how not only are there still people in there, but they still refuse to leave. Just - dealing with the smoke and flames all day every day. It’s madness.