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.

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    3 hours ago

    Linux mint is perfect for my needs, and its pretty cool once you get used to doing stuff in terminal, although its still very user friendly for most. Microslop can suck my nuts.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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

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    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.

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      I wonder if they see the constant, gigantic updates to the framework distributable and think that’s a bad thing somehow.

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    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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    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.

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          Appears to be, that I am wrong too, they renamed the things a couple of times. Dot-NetCore is now DotNet and .NET Framework is the win lib that existed before NetCore and still does

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          Wow, it still notifies me. This, like I imagine most of life’s mysteries, has a very mundane explanation. I had just woken up, and in the haze I thought I was in a Linux gaming sub and made a very gaming centric comment. I realized the focus was very obviously not on gaming only after I posted.

          I hope you can sleep more soundly tonight knowing I’m ok <3

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            Yeah that’s cool, fair enough. Be well!

            For what its worth, gaming on linux is dope. Never ever going back.

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    That’s just Windows without a lot of the bad stuff. Microsoft will never do it because they earn money from it.

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    I logged out back in December and haven’t used or needed Windows since. Fedora Linux is my pick for a Windows replacement.

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    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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      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

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        .net (core) is a mature framework and collection of great languages that work really well, perform really well, and is truly cross platform and open source. It’s the best thing Microsoft offers.