[flohofwoe]

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.

[M95D]

> 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.

[avadodin]

Win2k with WSL without systemd would be so kino

[pjmlp]

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

[kruffalon]

> [...] kino

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

Either way, I like it :)