Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They’re switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
Without Builders, you don’t have software, and without software, you don’t have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.
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.
I’m fairly certain this post is specifically excluding corporate environments
I also don’t quite understand the dislike of dotnet, though. I mean I don’t like it either, but idk why
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
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
the fact that you list .net shows you dont have the knowledge to make this claim
in sum, linux with backwards compatability (a lazy excuse for not cleaning stuff up) and DOS commands. oh, and closed source.
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 there was a viable Windows Lite
But there is, and it’s called Linux Mint.
It does run many Windows applications using Wine, although not all of them.
Right? Like if this exists, what’s their draw for users to use the dogshit version?
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.
I would be quite prepared to pay a price for an operating system if it meant that it just works the way that Windows just works but without all the bloat. I’m really not all that interested and installing an operating system that likes to fight me.
Are you assuming that Windows users would do the smart thing? They’ve already failed.
I don’t really know what it is, but I do know that a whole bunch of stuff doesn’t work if you don’t have it installed. That and Java.
It’s just a framework for some code (usually that written in C#) to run on. It’s not a windows only thing either. Just that on Linux if it’s required it’ll just get installed via the package manager, so you won’t see the usual GUI installer that is often packaged with some games (even though you might already have it installed).
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.
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.
Some of Microsoft’s corporate products are actually quite good, if very boring. I would love it if Linux had some version of Active Directory, although Microsoft’s attempts to cloudify it are a very annoying. Fortunately you can just ignore that, at least for now.
They also get a lot of credit for releasing VSCode for free as well.
