[cosmic_cheese]

Maybe, but there’s no reason why a thoughtfully engineered Win7 clone DE on a lightweight Linux couldn’t run just as well or better on the same hardware.

[aleph_minus_one]

> but there’s no reason why a thoughtfully engineered Win7 clone DE on a lightweight Linux

Why not a "thoughtfully engineered Win7 clone Desktop Environment" (without Linux :-) ). By the way: people are working on ReactOS:

> https://reactos.org/