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.
and developers
Windows developers largely use Windows Server or Enterprise, neither of which have telemetry, spying, ads, or AI, depending on group policy.
I’m a little confused by the inclusion of .NET. Most Windows developers actively use that.
A lot of games actually require it too
.Net
Isn’t this just Windows Embedded?
With many critical apps still running on Windows only, Windows needs to get worse!
To push those software companies over to embrace Linux finally. Then the users can follow.Why is .NET bad now?
I wonder if they see the constant, gigantic updates to the framework distributable and think that’s a bad thing somehow.
That’s just Windows without a lot of the bad stuff. Microsoft will never do it because they earn money from it.
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.
Microsoft is now offering Azure Linux.
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.
I logged out back in December and haven’t used or needed Windows since. Fedora Linux is my pick for a Windows replacement.
What you’re describing is the LTSC IoT editions, which are what I run on my Windows boxes.
Seconded. I moved to Win10 LTSC IoT on some, Bazzite on others, and haven’t looked back.
I’m never loading naked spyware Win11 again.
When forced to move off win10iot I’ll go to win11iot for anything mission critical for windows.
But by then I’d better be 90% MacOS/Linux.
Microsoft needs to die.
I remember saying that in the early 2000s…
You need to abandon windows. You know their goals. You know they can’t be trusted. Stop giving them chances to get it right and fuck you.
Isnt that basically enterprise?
It was my understanding enterprise edition stripped out all that bullshit.
If a “lite” version removed their ability to spy on you they’d have to charge you $4,000/year for the privilege, just to make up the difference.
Do i have news for you, youll need .net.
Either for windows stuff, or for your games ( most likely launchers )We have that. Its called Arch. And I’ve done .net development on it.
You probably mean NetCore which is not equal to .NET framework.
I dunno bro, it was a .Net project with EF core stuff in it. .Net aint my primary wheelhouse.
