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.
It’s easier to just use Linux.
in sum, linux with backwards compatability (a lazy excuse for not cleaning stuff up) and DOS commands. oh, and closed source.
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
Install Linux, Problem Solved.
No .NET 😂 what’s still running after that?
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, wouldn’t everyone just use that?
If there was a viable Windows Lite
But there is, and it’s called Linux Mint.
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.
No, I’d use Linux
Are you assuming that Windows users would do the smart thing? They’ve already failed.
All the things that are easily disabled? -Sounds as foolish as having a distro for changing wallpaper, fonts and color scheme.
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.
What’s wrong with .NET?
Nothing, bias from the .NET Framework days probably
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.
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.
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.
