• 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Years ago I got my parents to switch from internet explorer to firefox by putting IE’s icon over firefox…this has the same vibes. If you have someone technologically illiterate in your life who pretty much only uses the browser…yeah this idea could work.

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      20 days ago

      I did the exact same thing. IceWM with XP skin, Firefox with an extension that changed the name in the title bar to internet explorer + a IE theme. Then Thunderbird with an outlook theme. For years they used it like this and no longer did I have to clean out viruses or remove IEs additional toolbars that plagued that era.

      Occasionally I would run some updates and that was it.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Here’s the thing…IF it could do what it claims, it would be a game changer.

    It tries to claim it’s able to be a replacement for Windows, on Linux. It can run Windows native software. It does what Windows 11 does.

    And that’s the problem. Nobody wants Windows 11. Windows 10 installs are GROWING while Windows 11 are actually shrinking. People are uninstalling Windows 11, to install Windows 10. And you’re going to mimic Winfows 11??? Ok. Bad move right out of the gate.

    But lets see what it can do. Can it really run all Windows software and completely eliminate the need for microsoft?

    In a word…No. It’s just Wine. Same Wine you can do on any other machine. With the same limitations. Nothing special here.

    This is just a Windows 11 theme, which is hidden behind a $35 paywall. Yes the basic version is free, but if you came here, you came for the Windows. Part of the Windows apperance is hidden behind a liscense key fee.

    So it’s trying to be something everyone hates to begin with. Claims it can do something uniquely useful, but fails. Then has the gall to charge you money for the experience.

    That’s like making fake plastic dog shit, still having to use little baggies to clean it up, NOT getting to spend time with a dog afterwards, and then charging you money for the pleasure of cleaning up fake shit.

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    20 days ago

    If it doesn’t contain a Windows Activation message with a link which leads to a kernel panic, I’m not interested…

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        20 days ago

        But does it lead to a kernel panic?:-?

        I also wanted to point out the obvious Linux references, but the people I’d want to pra-uuh help with this replacement OS would probably be none the wiser now that I think about it…

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    20 days ago

    damn, this is like cancer with hypertumor, instead of destroying and overtaking the parent tumor, they coexisted in a much nastier state.