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• yellowapple 4y ago
  > let Windows be a good Linux Window Manager. Which would be coming full circle back to the days when Windows was a good (for the time) DOS window manager.
• marcodiego 4y ago
  Yes. Windows could be a better wine than wine.
  • tech234a 4y ago
    Worth noting that already did this to support SQL Server on Linux [1]. [1]: https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf https://threedots.ovh/slides/Drawbridge.pdf
  • nix23 4y ago
    Wine is the better Windows as Microsoft's Windows.
    • sedatk 4y ago
      What's that mean? Is it 150% compatible with Windows apps?
      • gattilorenz 4y ago
        If you consider 16 bit apps, yes.
        • satiric 4y ago
          I know this is HN, but come on, how many 16 bit programs do people use nowadays?
          • Dwedit 4y ago
            I still use "MIDISoft Recording Session" to edit midi files. Seriously ancient software there, and it's having some compatibility problems (related to moving the mouse cursor) under OTVDM + Windows 10.
          • JakoDel_ 4y ago
            It doesn't have to be 16 bit software, many 32 bit programs used 16 bit installers.
            • IYasha 4y ago
              I had one, many years ago. Just re-zip and forget. )
      • nix23 4y ago
        >150% compatible with Windows apps Math....
• rvz 4y ago
  > I'd further argue that Microsoft should stop developing its windows OS kernel altogether, running wsl2 on top of a boring windows kernel is never the solution. They should build Windows on top of the Linux kernel, I mean let Windows be a good Linux Window Manager. Well Windows 11 is now already the best Linux Desktop distro with WSL2. No need to further complicate it with the rube goldberg contraption that the Linux desktop ecosystem brings.
  • seanw444 4y ago
    The best black box, utterly proprietary, spyware Linux distro.
  • thangngoc89 4y ago
    How so? I’m considering switching to a Windows laptop for the first time in 10 years of doing development on MacOS. Mainly because I’m into machine learning/ neural network these days and everyone around me keep saying buy a laptop with CUDAs support
    • xet7 4y ago
      MacOS does not have NVIDIA CUDA: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-11_6_0-developer-tools-mac-hosts https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-11_6_0-deve... Could you use this instead? https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/ https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/
  • prmoustache 4y ago
    > Well Windows 11 is now already the best Linux Desktop distro with WSL2. You'd have a hard time convincing anyone. WSL2 is just a glorified Linux VM on top of a terrible OS.
    • nailer 4y ago
      It doesn’t feel that way. For me it’s all of apt-get and Linux binaries with the hardware support of Windows.
• tinus_hn 4y ago
  Fortunately you don’t get to dictate what others spend their free time on.
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• Thoreandan 4y ago
  There are bits and pieces that were (are?) better architected - I'm always a fan of biodiversity in the field. From what I've seen, XNU/NT/Linux/BSD diversity has, despite all their frustrations, been a net benefit.
• xet7 4y ago
  From https://reactos.org/faq/ https://reactos.org/faq/ "What are the differences between Windows and ReactOS? There are mainly two. Firstly ReactOS is open source. Secondly ReactOS is Free. Also Windows (especially the newer versions) are known to monitor all your activity by default. So if you’re concerned about your privacy or just don’t want to share any personal info, we promise (and you can check our source code) that we don’t track any of your data." That is very nice!