MS did a shift like that already. The shift from MS-DOS to NT was transparent to the vast majority of people to the point that most people didn’t realize they were two different OSes.

I don’t see why they couldn’t do it again. NTVDM was similar in concept to what wine does. Imagine if MS actively contributed to wine, or a wine like project.

Let’s give them credit. Maybe their first experience was installing Gentoo, which is when Windows is better.

I would have said the Cyberpunk TTRPG. Shadowrun was basically Cyberpunk with magic.

Cyberpunk even predicted this

https://www.vice.com/en/article/rich-people-are-using-this-app-to-hire-armed-guards-after-the-uhc-ceo-shooting

I am not a narcissist. I don’t think I’m better or more important than anyone else. I don’t think I’m the center of the universe.

I am however, an asshole. Knowing you are not the best or smartest, doesn’t mean you can’t be arrogant and insufferable.

It was the straw that broke the camels back to get me to switch to Linux.

Someone always beats me to the funniest response!

VMware is not on death row. VMware is already dead. It no longer exists. All that’s left is an entity possessing its corpse.