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Said "emulation layer" would basically be Wine. I'm afraid this whole MS-Linux speculation is just nonsensical, far fetched fantasy. Dropping Windows entirely
by vezzy-fnord 11y ago
Said "emulation layer" would basically be Wine. I'm afraid this whole MS-Linux speculation is just nonsensical, far fetched fantasy.
Dropping Windows entirely is certainly plausible, but they'd probably do it in favor of the Midori OS their research lab has been working on based on the managed runtime aspects they've been learning from Singularity.
Of course I know how file systems work, but in the shoes of an everyday computer user, the whole thing is unfriendly and weird.
If you consider this to even be a problem, then switching to Linux will not help with this. At all. It will only exacerbate it.
- mbrock 11y agoThanks, I didn't know about Midori. Yeah, it is fantasy. I don't know enough to say whether it's far-fetched. I don't think it's obviously nonsensical. Linux of course has tons of advantages. A huge community, lots of hardware support, open source, etc. Microsoft has been talking about how they "love Linux." Why wouldn't it be a reasonable base for a new platform? Like how Apple went with XNU/Mach/BSD? I'm not really talking about "switching to Linux". I'm talking about building a new operating system that uses Linux as the underlying kernel. Since it's my fantasy, I declare that this new operating system has a very clean and well-organized file manager...