[keyle]

This is a good point. The kernel stuff of Windows isn't really the problem.

I've been on macOS for eons, but I still hope that some day, someone at microsoft will have the balls to make a Windows Redux. Which is just Windows 7 with a coat of paint; and less stuff, installable separately; geared towards speed and not stuffings.

[wincy]

It’ll be like WoW classic servers or old school RuneScape, only for your OS.

[keyle]

I am completely oblivious to what you stated but it sounds about right :')

[okanat]

I don't know about you but I am happy with most of the stuff that Microsoft still ships with Windows userspace (surprisingly) and kernel.

Win32, stable driver APIs (I can still run Win11 on my old Nvidia GPU laptop which Linux doesn't support), COM, good remote desktop infrastructure, DirectX 12, WPF, ClearType or certain Win32 aspects like IO completiton ports (allows true async like uring does but in Windows since NT times) are all has some good engineering and widespread adoption. Many other OSes still copy what Windows offered in early 00s.

They are fucking their last mile a big time. They fuck explorer, they fuck desktop experience. All in the name of stupid fads. Silicon Valley hustler Microsoft is worse than shirts with Ballmer's fluids Microsoft.

[pjmlp]

Yes, I do miss Balmer.

At least on what concerns Windows development, everything was much better with him, even if the command.com wasn't great, there were alternatives already.

GUI frameworks have become a mess, .NET, C++ and Visual Studio are now AI tainted as well.

[daviddever23box]

ReactOS has entered the chat.

[keyle]

Yes that project unfortunately just doesn't seem to get there, or is terrible at marketing itself.

[okanat]

Oh man. That would be awesome. However they are already struggling to catch up with Vista-era APIs.

[pjmlp]

Welcome to 2003, not really.