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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers (philipbohun.com)
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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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[–] CalvusRex@lemmy.world 29 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft is now offering Azure Linux.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 hours ago

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.