This time I want the credit, so I’m posting my prediction publicly while everyone still thinks it’s ridiculous: I predict that within 15 years Microsoft will discontinue Windows in favor of a Windows themed Linux distribution.
People have been joking about a Windows DE atop the Linux kernel for a while now buddy, too late for you to call dibs
Giving a specific time range and making this prediction in earnest is well worth receiving some credit if it pans out.
Ya, I even wrote into a Linux podcast like 7 years ago making this exact prediction. It’s not new.
I mean they did switch to their own flavor of their competitor with Edge already so it wouldn’t be a first.
I just hope that is they do this they won’t gain leverage to control the development of Linux for their own purposes in some way.
Microsoft can’t do funny things. Microsoft is a bloodsucking sociopath in a clown dress.
It would be in line with their usual EEE, so totally not surprising.
They don’t give two shits about brand loyalty as long as line go up.It’s called Microslop. Won’t you ever forget it
Maybe. If they do it’s going to represent a pretty dramatic shift away from backwards compatibility, which has always been the biggest defining characteristic of Windows. Probably not for Enterprise, but maybe for Personal?
They would keep backup compatibility using wine. Well, at least sort of.
Yeah, that’s fine for handling some stuff, but there are some very old applications still in use that were coded by a programmer who died twenty years ago who counted on Windows bugs. A lot of companies refuse to spend the money to upgrade or replace those systems, and so Microsoft has maintained compatibility for them ever since. Wine hasn’t reached full parity for those bugs, at least so far.
The key word being so far. A company like Microsoft would be able to ramp up wine development substantially, if they decided to. If I’m not mistaken, these very old legacy 16 and 32 bit apps have to be run on emulators running old versions of windows anyways - in these cases the OS running the emulator doesn’t matter anyways.
True! If they committed back to the Linux kernel and the Wine project, this would be a huge boon. And it might happen someday, I guess; they’ve contributed to other FOSS projects. They’ve also built the WSL which is just one transposition away from a LSW, so who knows.
LSW?
LSW Laboratory Safety Workshop
LSW Lamberg Sleep Well
LSW Land and Sea Warfare
LSW Lasik Surgery Watch
LSW Last Seen Wearing
LSW Least Significant Word
LSW Leeds Sculpture Workshop
LSW Left-Sided Weakness LSW Legendary Super Warriors
LSW Lego Star Wars
LSW Licensed Social Worker
LSW Light Ship Weight
LSW Light Support Weapon
LSW Lincoln Southwest
LSW London Standard Wording
LSW Long Suffering Wife
LSW Loudoun Symphonic Winds
LSW Lucas-Sargent-Wallace propositionHeh, sorry. “WSL” is the “Windows Subsystem for Linux,” which (in the opposite of the way it sounds like it should work) runs Linux on Windows, pretty close to baremetal. So the “LSW” would be the “Linux Subsystem for Windows,” so to speak; a hypothetical way to run Windows on a Linux machine.
How are Nvidia GPUs holding up on Linux at this point? Since the author specifically praised AMD and Linux.
Counter to the experiences I usually read about here, I put an Nvidia GPU into my Linux box over the weekend and it just worked immediately.
Now I have no idea if I’ve been reading the troubles of a vocal minority, or if I should go buy a lotto ticket this weekend. Haha.
There’s three types of NVIDIA failures on Linux:
A- The niche thing that doesn’t work for the group of people who use it.
B- The specific card model that doesn’t work.
C- The distro that for some reason is a nightmare to install the drivers.
Each motive individually is not a lot of people, but all together it is way much more than AMD. Hence the difference.
Also, if you have a type A failure card, there’s a probability that maybe it will be fixed eventually. But for type B, you’re out of luck. There’s a non-zero chance that your card will never work.
Type C is entirely up to user error and distro effort. But it won’t help with type A and B. If NVIDIA of fails you, whether you can install the drivers on your distro or not, is irrelevant.
Same boat here, just works, both on my laptop and deksktop.
In fact most of our company runs linux on laptops with nvidia gpu…
The biggest problem i can think of is a distro that doesn’t ship the drivers in their package manager. and then it’s just following the description on the nvidia website how to install them for your distro.
MS already has their own Linux distribution…
And their own Unix before that. And arguably their own Linux compatible kernel until they dropped that ball.
I think if they were planning this at all, we’d see linux support for maui. currently their linux use has been very focused on only for devs and servers
Heck, you can’t even use it to give a slideshow without risking Windows Update deciding to reinstall your whole OS mid presentation! Ask me how I know.
There are several ways to prevent that. There’s a lot of valid criticism to be made about windows but it’s hard to take someone seriously who apparently doesn’t know how to use the OS.