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Chrome is also capable of running Android software, there used to be a hack for doing so. See here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/hack-runs-android-ap...

Unfortunately this was quickly patched, and I suspect this Windows Subsystem for Android hack will be as well.

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They stopped supporting this in 2017. Before this, you could do this without any hacks, just a chrome extension called Arc Welder made by Google.

I doubt. Microsoft definition of Windows nowadays is "we don't care what your operating system is, your executables should run on our WinOS as well". And if somebody actually does this port from 11 to 10, they'll be happy about it. More developers will run from other OS'es to Win

I doubt that they are super happy about it. Many of their newer software are gatekeeped to Win11 without a strong reason. They are pushing people to switch to 11.

11 and also edge. They still care a lot whether people use their stuff.

The whole reason behind WSL was to stop the Exodus of cloud developers to running Linux on their laptops (though most of them at my work still prefer it over WSL)

Is there a reason to not switch?

Well, there are features missing.

Given how every monitor in existence is wide , it's super odd you can't drag the taskbar to the side, it's bottom only. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-explains-why-you-ca...

The Win 11 context menu is just irritating, it displays a lot of unnecessary things and the "real" context menu is hidden under "show more options"

You can see much more at https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/ -- and this project fixes them, too.

They removed support for lots of perfectly adequate and capable hardware. There are no legit reasons for this, and I would say for e-waste concerns it probably enters into unethical territory.

It requires TPM, and for a while AMD's software TPM implementation was buggy and caused stutters. That got me to push back my update to 11 to 'at least a year from now'; I don't want to suffer a bug while waiting for a BIOS patch if there's another issue like that.

A better Linux than Linux and a better Android than Android.

OS/2 ran Windows programs better than Windows itself did but that didn't save it from eventually dying off.

bet

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