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Apparently [1] Lindows -> Linspire -> Freespire [2]. There's also Xandros Desktop OS but that's apparently discontinued anyway [3]. I never personally used Lin
by bArray 8y ago
Apparently [1] Lindows -> Linspire -> Freespire [2]. There's also Xandros Desktop OS but that's apparently discontinued anyway [3].
I never personally used Lindows (or any variation of it), but I'm pretty sure you could create an experience that users would find pretty difficult to distinguish between Windows and Linux for the most part.
The key would be making sure everything is redirected through Wine and for the most part the OS does all the maintenance itself. Then it's just a case of wrapping some common utilities with a Windows like layout and it should be good to go.
[1] https://www.linux.com/news/linspire-going-away https://www.linux.com/news/linspire-going-away
[2] http://www.freespire.org/ http://www.freespire.org/
[3] https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros