All the solutions posed by the former Microsoft engineer are sound and wonderful; the problem is that Microsoft is proudly incompetent, loves AI too much, and currently cater to shareholders. They won’t do it unless there is a radical leadership change that alters the course for Windows Development as a whole. Not likely to happen, but a dream that I would want to see made real.

I watched the video and he doesn’t understand the problem at all.

I think step one is to start from scratch and not worry about backwards compatibility. Is it going to be painful? No doubt. But all that legacy support causes problems.

Hardcore windows eh? Sounds like linux…

cat /etc/*-release

I guess i’m already using a hardcore OS.

Honestly though. Microsoft doesn’t give a shit about “hardcore users” - they care about revenue. Windows and their cloud ecosystem sure as shit is doing well. It’s not like there’s much of an alternative with staff trained in it beyond the tech people though, sadly.

Would be nice to see the government put FOSS first and deprioritize proprietary solutions. Let’s say we change the US government to use Linux and FOSS products to do the job. Plus If every kid had to submit homework via libreoffice and were given linux based laptops instead of the typical chromebook/mac/bullshit maybe it would change…

I think a handful of really big companies could probably effect this change too, but very few are majority linux outside of infrastructure services.