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> Games that rudely switch to fullscreen, I can run in Wine Virtual Desktop. Previously on Windows, I had to configure hacks like DxWnd and it didn't always work.

Maybe Wine could be ported to Windows :-)

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There will be a day when Microsoft ships a "Windows" that cuts all legacy compatibility except for an included distribution of Wine.

Microsoft might not do it, but there's always reactos [1]

[1] https://reactos.org/

At this point, that's exactly what Windows needs. As Microsoft only adds new features and doesn't remove almost any, Windows is getting reaaally bloated. And what was Microsoft's response? Everyone should buy a new faster computer to run Windows 11.

Tbh, a better strategy would to slim down Windows again would be to remove all the new user-facing stuff which was added over the last two decades. There have been significant improvements in the kernel and DirectX, but on the surface, Windows somehow managed to remove user-facing features while at the same time adding an incredible amount of bloat in layers above the core operating system. From a usability perspective the Windows desktop UI in Win2k was singnificantly better than anything that came after.

Win2k with WSL without systemd would be so kino

> [...] kino

IHaveABanana Is this a thing or are you just now trying to make it a thing?

Either way, I like it :)

Hardly, given that systemd author is a Microsoft employee nowadays.

> remove all the new user-facing stuff which was added over the last two decades

That's not all that needs to be removed from Windows, and it's not what they're interested in removing. The old MFC, GDI, COMCTL, COMDLG, Winsock etc. must be a lot higher in their "do delete" list.

That was the idea with UWP and Windows 10X, but folks really want that backwards compatibility.

Well, yes, but APIs aside, as long as the developers and users have the choice, they won't choose a new backwards incompatible solution if when they can stay with their old solution.

Look at Apple Macs, all went from x86 to arm, breaking software and fixing incompatibilities later. Users had no choice but to use m1 macOS if they wanted a new device.

And leave software behind, hence why many postpone their acquisition until the hardware dies.

It was/is unironically a "solution" to some games (eg. Elden Ring) with unfixable stuttering on Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAooLiCy7rE

You can already run it in WSL2, apparently.

Running windows to run linux to run windows is delicious

It already is in some form! This is what I used to play Sid Meier's Civnet with my brothers: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

https://fdossena.com/index.php?p=wined3d/index.frag

This is the proper Wine for Windows but just for DirectX->GL or DirectX-Vulkan.

Just run it under wsl

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