Dumbest take of 2025, I’m calling it early.
Mark mine: Microsoft and Windows will be promoted by government and people will lap it up. Linux will be vilified and this will be accepted by the public, at least in the USA.
Eh…I don’t see it.
I think the more common response would be “What’s Linux?”
I have marked your words “incorrect”
This won’t happen, there is a lot of industrial software that digs it’s fingers deep into windows subsystems that wine does not support. Even popular commercial, like adobe, cannot run on wine correctly
At this point I’m not even sure Microsoft knows how some of those sub systems work, they just migrating ancient code bases and patching it enough to make it work again on the new compilers.
So windows kernel will exist untill everyone else leaves.
Move your workflow away from windows, if you can, as Microsoft doesn’t care enough about their userbase.
This is why there’s still Windows XP running major systems.
Windows kept changing anyway so maybe it’s possible that’ll still happen and people just get left with legacy OSs
Naa, I was a Windows kernel dev for Intel a decade ago. We had guys that knew different parts of the kernel. Microsoft engineers know the kernel well. They have to, they have engineers from different companies fixing bugs and making changes. I had my contact for the parts of the kernel I was responsible for and other engineers had their contacts. You have to think, some of these engineers at Intel have been working on the same subsystem for twenty+ years.
So windows kernel will exist until everyone else leaves.
Yeah, that’s what he is eluding to. Microsoft keeps adding to Azure Linux. One day, there will be a Windows user land for Linux, i.e. Win/Linux instead of GNU/Linux. It will be much cheaper to run a Win/Linux distro in the cloud than full Windows. Most users just use the browser anyways. Anybody that actually needs a program not supported by the Win/Linux distro can fall back to the full Windows. Eventually everything will be supported on Win/Linux. Plus, WoW64 is already a translation layer for 32bit Windows applications and there are others and have been others over the years. A translation layer to run legacy Windows software would be nothing new for Microsoft.
I’m have whatever he’s having
So animals evolve towards being crabs, operating systems evolve towards being linux distros?
Animals evolve towards being crabs? Wait, hold on with the linux stuff. Lets circle back to the core concept of this premise.
…crabs?
And the license pricing will only adjust for inflation.
Doubt.
Wasn’t there a button in that game where the detective just starts punching? I mean, I’m not saying that would be the appropriate reaponse to this take, but I’m also not NOT saying that would be the appropriate response to this take.
I don’t think they would bother doing that much work at the core of the operating system. They are too busy playing with the UI and cloud integrations they don’t care about the algorithms the kernel runs on and they have a better driver situation currently anyway. I don’t see the route to this.
There will not be a desktop anymore before linux becomes the only mainstream OS.
Witness: android.
Shut up about the “year of the linux desktop”.
It has been the so called year of the linux desktop ever since linux was a thing.
If Windows becomes a Linux distro that might save their share in normal desktop usage.
So I don’t see it happening.
They don’t care about their users.
It’s already partially there with WSL. Still has a long way to go. But it isn’t completely rediculous.
Isn’t that kinda the opposite? I thought WSL was just the ability to just run linux cli stuff on a machine running windows
as far as I understand it’s more like a VM. But yeah it’s quite literally the opposite of what OP suggested.
WSL will truly be the “Windows Subsystem for Linux”, as foretold in the prophecy.
