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Imustaskforhelplast Tuesday at 9:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Hm I see the confusion, what I was proposed was for something like loss32 to have a window manager / desktop environmnet which looks like windows 7

Loss32 is itself a linux distro and thus there should technically be nothing stopping it from shipping everywhere

I think you were assuming that I meant create a whole kernel from scratch or something but I am just merely asking a loss32 reskin which looks like windows 7 which is definitely possible without any of the company debugging consumer hardware or even the need of company for that matter I suppose considering that I was proposing an open source desktop environment which just behaved like windows 7 by default as an example.

I don't really understand why we need a winning business model out of it, there isn't really a winning model for niri,hyprland,sway,kde,xfce,lxqt,gnome etc., they are all open source projects who are run with help of donations

There might be a misunderstanding between us but I hope this clears up any misunderstanding.


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trelanelast Tuesday at 9:55 PM

I think fundamentally I disagree with your optimism. I've seen a number of these come and go over the decades. I do not think making something that looks like Windows would be sufficient to be successful.

> you were assuming that I meant create a whole kernel from scratch or something

No, making Linux run reliably on random laptops is already a monumental challenge.

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