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To: Openurmind
> Could 11 be a hybrid dayglored? Planting the seeds of Linux in Windows for future expansion?

I've long thought that Windows ought to be refactored the way pre-OS-X MacOS was refactored into OS-X, that is, keep the GUI concepts but use an *IX operating system as the foundation. Apple used BSD Unix, specifically the one (FreeBSD) that had been adapted into NeXTStep.

So if Microsoft was smart, they would ditch the deeply flawed NT codebase, and put the Windows 7 era GUI over a Linux foundation. I even thought they might do that for Windows 11, but it does not appear that they are far enough along to do that.

I continue to hold hope that they wise up eventually.

114 posted on 06/20/2021 8:06:31 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Thank you for sharing! I would like to see a GUI Win 7 theme for Cinnamon myself. But no one has made one yet. They have them that dresses it up like XP and Win 10, but not Win 7. If I had extra time... :)


115 posted on 06/20/2021 8:51:42 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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