Windows is all but an API now. I wouldn’t be surprised if Windows, as an OS used for gaming, “dies” from enshittification, OEMs start shipping thier own crappy linux distros built around Wine, and every game dev targets Proton explicitly.
The irony would be delicious. It’s not unprecedented, either.
That’s my hope for it, like people target for the “IBM” PC platform, but IBM got out of the business years ago. It’s better and more stable since they left.
it frankly just seems like the sensible thing for microsoft to migrate to windows being a shell ontop of a linux base, they already rely on linux for azure and it would presumably let them ditch A LOT of old baggage
Not totally, I think? There are so many businesses that will cling to Windows forever, and even an “official” Wine distro would mess them up. Micrtosoft will milk it.
OEMs selling new consumer PCs, though? Their hands aren’t so tied, especially if they get fed up with the enshittification they don’t profit from.
Windows is all but an API now. I wouldn’t be surprised if Windows, as an OS used for gaming, “dies” from enshittification, OEMs start shipping thier own crappy linux distros built around Wine, and every game dev targets Proton explicitly.
The irony would be delicious. It’s not unprecedented, either.
That’s my hope for it, like people target for the “IBM” PC platform, but IBM got out of the business years ago. It’s better and more stable since they left.
Exactly.
I was also thinking of this lawsuit, which legally paves the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America%2C_Inc.
I’d like for that to happen as well, but this seems like a very optimistic outlook.
Windows is definitely, objectively dying.
The question is what fraction is replaced with Android/iOS and what with desktop Linux.
it frankly just seems like the sensible thing for microsoft to migrate to windows being a shell ontop of a linux base, they already rely on linux for azure and it would presumably let them ditch A LOT of old baggage
Not totally, I think? There are so many businesses that will cling to Windows forever, and even an “official” Wine distro would mess them up. Micrtosoft will milk it.
OEMs selling new consumer PCs, though? Their hands aren’t so tied, especially if they get fed up with the enshittification they don’t profit from.