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Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.

Without Builders, you don't have software, and without software, you don't have users. This is why Microsoft needs Windows Lite.

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[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But here's the big problem: stripping all of the terrible shit out of Windows doesn't make it better than Linux, it just makes it less bad than Windows is today.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For anyone running anticheat games Windows is the only option. Windows being utter shit might one day get them to give up these games just so they could ditch Windows. Which I'd welcome, but Microsoft probably doesn't.

[–] Reality@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

Or the other way around. As soon as enough people switch, game devs will follow.

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