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Wubuntu is a stripped-down Kubuntu, with custom themes and additional tools to make it look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11. The identity crisis starts with its name. While the primary website is wubuntu.org, that name is rarely seen inside the OS itself. Other parts of the website call it "Windows Theme on …

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  1. Dan 55 Silver badge
    Stop

    PSA: Do not donate to this

    Wubuntu - The Windows Themed Linux Distro You Shouldn't Use

    tl;dr at 5:42 into the video: This was previously called Linux FX and donators' e-mail addresses could be easily found. The developer's response left a lot to be desired.

    Edit: That was mentioned was in the penultimate paragraph, but people (like me, for example) could miss that.

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    1. cyberdemon Silver badge
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      Mushroom

      Re: PSA: Do not donate to this

      Anyone donating to this is only donating to Microsoft and their lawyers, after the inevitable lawsuit stops this abomination in its tracks..

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      1. Martin Summers
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        Re: PSA: Do not donate to this

        Anyone remember Lindows? Yeah, exactly.

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        1. ShortLegs
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          Re: PSA: Do not donate to this

          "Anyone remember Lindows? Yeah, exactly."

          Came here to say just that. I dont see this lasting.

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  2. tiggity Silver badge

    Some use cases

    As someone who had to install Linux on relatives systems back in the day (one of those Win forced upgrades to new version of the OS that just continually failed) having a distro with look & feel familiar to a Windows User could be a plus point in overcoming the learning curve of a different OS.

    Though not including FireFox seems odd (that was the browser I set up for my dad to use as it was more user friendly than Chrome & easier to block ads etc . (old, low spec PC so ad block was a good performance improvement))

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    1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge
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      Re: Some use cases

      It would be odder still if Firefox isn't installable. But is Firefox on a standard Windows install? If not I suppose its omission is only to be expected.

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      1. Peter Gathercole Silver badge
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        Re: Some use cases

        Firefox is packaged as a snap on recent versions of Ubuntu, and the article states that this spin does not include snap packages. I understand that you can install the Debian builds on Ubuntu, but you have to jump through some hoops by adding additional repo's to the APT config to be able to do it.

        But for the "Windows experience", you probably only need to install Edge and maybe Chrome.

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        1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge
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          Re: Some use cases

          As Flatpak is installed I'd expect it to be installable with the dependencies via that. But, as you say, the Windows experience would be Edge and Chrome. I wonder how they manage to emulate the Windows experience of Mail.

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          1. katrinab Silver badge
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            Meh

            Re: Some use cases

            Isn't that mostly, fire up Google Chrome, and visit gmail.com?

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        2. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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          Re: Some use cases

          > But for the "Windows experience", you probably only need to install Edge and maybe Chrome.

          "Why not both?"

          ... the creators apparently asked themselves.

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    2. cyberdemon Silver badge
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      Re: Though not including FireFox seems odd

      Don't say that! Liam would go NUTS if they included THREE browsers!

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    3. heyrick Silver badge
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      Re: Some use cases

      "having a distro with look & feel familiar to a Windows User"

      Doesn't Windows itself change some of the UI behaviour between each major version?

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      1. nijam Silver badge
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        Re: Some use cases

        > Doesn't Windows itself change some of the UI behaviour between each major version?

        i.e. Doesn't Windows itself change lots of the UI behaviour between each version?

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      2. doublelayer Silver badge
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        Re: Some use cases

        Yes, which makes a lot of people resist updating Windows until that causes problems. Which also means they will sometimes resist Linux similarly strenuously. I'm not sure whether a UI that looks like their version of Windows will trick them into not complaining about Linux, but I can see why someone thinks it's worth a try.

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    4. O'Reg Inalsin
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      Winthadone

      No worse than Methadone for junkies.

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  3. A Non e-mouse Silver badge
    WTF?

    Why?

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    1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge
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      A couple of reasons. One would be to introduce Linux where it's not been seen before without frightening the horses. Another would be to fly it in under the radar in corporate environments where Windows is de rigueur.

      OTOH the cosmetics can be downloaded from store.kde.org and would you really want to replace some Linux utilities by Windows lookalikes.

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      1. cyberdemon Silver badge
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        Devil

        I don't think this is going to make a dent in corporate adoption of Linux, sadly.

        Corporate IT bods don't really give a toss what it looks like, (except to the extent that users know where everything is and won't keep calling the Helldesk because they can't find MS Paint - and this distro is not similar enough i.e. identical to Windows for those sorts of users to be happy with it) - What the Corporate IT dept really cares about is Active Directory, Group Policy, how to remotely control what the lusers are allowed to do, and I doubt that this has any more than RHEL does for that.

        So no, there is no use case. This is an 'Uncanny Valley' flop which will be universally hated from all directions.

        This seems to be designed to extract money from people daft enough to give it a try, while giving nothing to the projects that did all the hard work i.e. KDE, Ubuntu, Linux (and Microsoft, lol). May the lawsuits surge forth.

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        1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge
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          If you're sitting at your desktop with what looks to be W11 on it nobody's going to look closely enough to check that you haven't quietly upgraded your OS. That's the under the radar use case.

          OTOH it only takes a few minutes to apply cosmetics from kde.org to make any KDE distro look like any version of Windows you choose. That's why it will be a flop.

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          1. gv
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            Big Brother

            Most large corporates now tend to deploy "endpoint management" software to audit what's on the machine and enforce policies, which usually will not run on Linux. So, if your company laptop doesn't communicate with the endpoint management server, expect awkward questions followed swiftly by a re-install of the corporate Windows build.

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            1. cyberdemon Silver badge
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              Trollface

              > So, if your company laptop doesn't communicate with the endpoint management server, expect awkward questions followed swiftly by a re-install of the corporate Windows build.

              That's what VMs are for..

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              1. Anonymous Coward
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                You believe that corporate security tools would not notice that one of their devices has suddenly been virtualized?

                I mean, they do have a lot of issues, but come on...

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                1. cyberdemon Silver badge
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                  Angel

                  You missed my Troll icon then

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            2. Ben Tasker
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              > expect awkward questions followed swiftly by a re-install of the corporate Windows build.

              Bloody companies and their forced return to Office policies

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            3. Antron Argaiv Silver badge
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              FAIL

              Endpoint "management"

              Mine did (retired now, tfG), and threatened dire consequences (including immediate termination) for installing "unapproved" software. As my job required the use of vendor supplied or open source drivers, diagnostics and tools not used by the rest of the organization (e.g. Wireshark, Bluetooth sniffers, SPI and I2C probes, logic analyzers) I felt free to ignore those restrictions (once tried to follow the rules, was told that my HP-41 emulator had malware in it -- when I asked what they were smoking and pointed out that it was open source, they admitted it was run through some random automated malware scanning website and got a positive)

              This is the same organisation that insisted they remotely upgrade their supplied and managed laptop to Win11...which failed not once, but twice, and took several days. Local IT bod had it wiped and re-imaged in 30 minutes.

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            4. Homo.Sapien.Floridanus
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              I can see some good use cases for pranking people.

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          2. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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            > That's why it will be a flop.

            According to Distrowatch it's been around since 2007.

            According to the data when their servers were hacked, over 20,000 have paid for it.

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  4. LenG

    Win 11?

    I'd be less uninterested if it looked like Win 10.

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    1. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: Win 11?

      > I'd be less uninterested if it looked like Win 10.

      As I said in the piece: Wubuntu is basically the Win11 version of LinuxFX, which _does_ look like Win10.

      I don't recommend either, but maybe run it in a VM to find out how to customise KDE into looking like it...

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  5. MJI Silver badge

    Ughh.

    One of the main issues with 11 are still there, ie it looks like 11.

    Sticking with Mint.

    It replaced my old 7 box.

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    1. Blazde Silver badge
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      Re: Ughh.

      Literally the worst part.

      I'd rather Windows 11 that looked like Linux.

      Or Windows 11 that looked like Windows 2000..

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  6. Mage Silver badge
    Windows

    Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

    Madness, one of the worst GUIs since Win8 or maybe Win 2 on Hercules!

    Win10 / win 11. Ghastly flat UIs where you don't know it a text is a button, link, text or something else.

    Why not something proven to be more productive? Win9x/W2K/XP/2003

    I'll stick with Mate on Mint.

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    1. Roland6 Silver badge
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      Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

      Not only more productive but more like the Windows UI people (ie. Non Linux and non tech users) will be more familiar with…

      Also running familiar (but older) Windows applications under Wine will also be more consistent…

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      1. werdsmith Silver badge
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        Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

        More productive in what way? Productivity happens inside the applications that run on the OS, not the OS itself.

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        1. Roland6 Silver badge
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          Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

          Agree the major contributor is the applications, but Windows plays its part in number clicks etc needed to perform basic tasks and not moving stuff around.

          Remember pre W11, the taskbar was reasonable consistent, being left aligned.

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          1. werdsmith Silver badge
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            Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

            That's quite desperate.

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    2. Bebu sa Ware
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      Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

      Win 2 on Hercules!

      At least better than on CGA and the Herc's resolution 720x348 (cf EGA 640x350) meant text was easier to read with no distractions from gaudy colours.

      Digitalk Smalltalk V (DOS) and The Whitewater Group's Actor (Win2 runtime) on a Herc card were reasonably usable by the standards of the time. Unfortunately finding MS and its Windows were crap* and I abandoned both concentrating on Unix and workalikes.

      * some things never change.

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      1. heyrick Silver badge
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        Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

        Upvote because I'm old enough to have used Hercules and yes, it was worthwhile sacrificing the colours for crisper text.

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        1. Loudon D'Arcy
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          To recreate the ‘green-screen’ olden days in your terminal/console window:

          • Install the ‘Terminus TTF’ font on your computer (https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/)

          • Change your console window’s font to be Terminus at 20pt bold (regular is too skinny).

          • Change your console window’s text colour to R92-G202-B29 (hex: #5CCA1D) and background colour to R18-G44-B13 (#122C0D). For the amber-screen look, text = R232-G178-B67, background = R36-G17-B12.

          (For added nostalgia, attach a Dymo label to your computer that says "PROPERTY OF THE LIBRARY", and sprinkle crisp crumbs and tiny bits of sticky confectionery into your keyboard.)

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          1. Jonathan Richards 1 Silver badge
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            Re: To recreate the ‘green-screen’ olden days in your terminal/console window:

            I mean, I upvoted, but I have Konsole set to use 12pt Hack font in green-on-black and that's olden enough for me. I'm afraid Terminus is just a step too far back in time! Next, someone will introduce phosphor fade...

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            1. Uncle Slacky Silver badge
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              Re: To recreate the ‘green-screen’ olden days in your terminal/console window:

              > Next, someone will introduce phosphor fade...

              Cool Retro Term has joined the chat: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

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    3. David Hicklin Silver badge
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      Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

      > Why not something proven to be more productive? Win9x/W2K/XP/2003

      I would be happy with the Windows 7 classic desktop............

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      1. Col_Panek
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        Re: Look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11.

        Zorin has a "windows 7" desktop option. Whatever.

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  7. Bebu sa Ware
    Facepalm

    The World is a little bit weirder....

    Even amongst all the other current weirdness of AI, US politics (actually just about any politics really) we now have a Linux Ferrari disguised as an Windows Edsel.

    Given the runaway popularity of Windows 11 an Ubuntu based Windows 11 lookalike, workalike might be a great idea but of course most Windows users would rather chew off their own right arm than migrate to (carefully avoiding the word upgrade) Windows 11, Wubuntu is just plain daft. If it were Windows 10 or Windows 7 themed Wubuntu might make some sense.

    Microsoft's visual or graphical design has always ranged from ugly to ghastly which makes slavishly copying those elements truly weird.

    The ersatz activation dialog is a worthy April 1 prank. Actually the whole thing seems like an extended joke but the utterly weird thing is that there will be individuals who will pay USD35 and will think Wubuntu the bees knees (especially, I imagine, if it sported native X (Twatter) client.)

    I suppose it could have been a little bit odder if they had based their efforts on OpenIndiana, a BSD distro or even Haiku.

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  8. Inkey
    IT Angle

    Ahah!

    Was scabiling through the kde themes and icon's yesterday (trying the mx kde ahs distri).... and wondered why there were so many m$ themes and what not... i know there are app's for M$ but could not understand why there were desktop back rounds etc ....

    Scrolled right passed that ... but now i know why it's there. As for why make a windoze distro... nah and nope..... probibly works a bit nicer than winfuckery though

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  9. Gene Cash Silver badge
    Coat

    Wubuntu

    Isn't that the noise you hear when a dubstep DJ falls down the stairs?

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  10. Phones Sheridan Silver badge
    Linux

    Full Metal Panic: Wubuntu

    Lindows 2?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      @Phones Sheridan - Re: Full Metal Panic: Wubuntu

      Well, well, this reference shows a certain age. If this is indeed the case, I no longer feel alone here.

      Yeah, those were the days!

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    2. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: Full Metal Panic: Wubuntu

      > Lindows 2?

      Nah. Lindows turned into Linspire, which turned into Freespire.

      This is Lindows ME. ;-)

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      1. J. Cook Silver badge
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        Re: Full Metal Panic: Wubuntu

        ... That's more than enough to make me run away screaming.

        (for the kids that never heard of it- Windows ME took all the bad things about the windows 98/ 98se codebase, tried to put the UI from windows 2000 over it, and failed miserably enough that OEMs either kept windows 98 SE or went directly to windows 2000, which was based on the NT codebase and what we are using descendants of.)

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  11. alain williams Silver badge

    Telemetry ?

    To really make the MS Windows fan boys feel at home does it implement a version is MS spyware that they call 'telemetry' ?

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    1. Mentat74
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      Re: To really make the MS Windows fan boys feel at home...

      Don't forget "A.I."....

      Or "Wowpilot"...

      Or forcing people to register a "Wicrosoft account"...

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  12. corb

    Seems pretty much a lure to get naive people to buy their app.

    My guess is most people this kind of fake Windows might appeal to never use more than a browser and one of two other apps. An easy-to-use desktop for them would be a few big app-launching icons against some nice desktop wallpaper.

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  13. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    Kudos to them if they've got Discover working reliably. That's been a KDE paper-cut for years. I think there must be a few undeclared dependencies.

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  14. bombastic bob Silver badge
    Mushroom

    2D FLATTY FLATASS FLATSO look still there - **WHY**???

    You know, if the UI were to look like Win7, WinXP, or even Win2k, it would be a WHOLE LOT BETTER...

    But NOOOOoooo. By "cloning" the look/feelz of Windows Ape/10-nic/II they've TRIPLED DOWN on Sinofsky's BULLSHIT FLATSO TIFKAM UI, once again.

    When is 3D Skeuomorphic (what people REALLY want) going to be the DRIVING FACTOR again?

    Remember Windows 2.x, vs 3.0??? 3.0 was SKEUOMORPHIC and THAT was *THE* revolution!!! I call THAT "PROOF"!!! 2D FLATSO FLATTY FLATASS is a REGRESSION!!!

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    1. cookieMonster
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      Re: 2D FLATTY FLATASS FLATSO look still there - **WHY**???

      Welcome back Bob, missed ya.

      Have a pint

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      1. phuzz Silver badge
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        Re: 2D FLATTY FLATASS FLATSO look still there - **WHY**???

        There's a reason he's not called "shy and retiring Bob" :)

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    2. JamesTGrant Bronze badge
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      Re: 2D FLATTY FLATASS FLATSO look still there - **WHY**???

      Hi Bob!!

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  15. jovoro

    I'm thousand-yard-staring at this while memories of LindowsOS come flooding back.

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    1. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      > memories of LindowsOS

      On second thought, maybe it isn't Lindows ME.

      Maybe it's Lindows Vista.

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      1. J. Cook Silver badge
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        Alert

        Hey, at least Vista was partially usable.

        But still; cleanse it with fire.

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        1. Scotthva5
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          nuke from orbit is always the safer option

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          1. James Hughes 1
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            It's the only way to be sure.

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  16. Anonymous Coward
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    "Another would be to fly it in under the radar in corporate environments where Windows is de rigueur."

    Oh yes, all those locked down Windows shops where they ensure compliance by having someone wander round and check everyone's wallpaper and icons look sufficiently Windows-like :-)

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    1. YetAnotherXyzzy
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      I worked at such a place once. The executive director was a control freak who dictated Thou Shalt Use Windows for no reason other than to remind the serfs who's in charge, but she was a cheap control freak who wouldn't give IT the resources to properly enforce it. Enforcement was thus limited to getting reported if the lone jack of all trades IT guy happened to see a non-Windows DE on your screen. So my screensaver was a static image of a Windows 7 desktop, activated with a keybinding.

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  17. Wang Cores
    Mushroom

    Linux terminal with Copilot...

    I hath seen hell with mine own eyes...

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    1. Andy Non Silver badge
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      Re: Linux terminal with Copilot...

      Did it have Licrosoft Licall, or don't you recall?

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  18. ForthIsNotDead
    Happy

    Sticking with Mint.

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  19. bitwise

    Coming to a scambaiters screen soon

    Can't wait to watch the YouTube of a confused scammer trying to use this.

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  20. katrinab Silver badge
    Meh

    ChromeOS looks nothing like Windows ...

    ChromeOS looks nothing like Windows, and where people have a problem with it, it is because there is a particular piece of Windows software that doesn't run on it, not the fact that it has a different theme to Windows.

    With the exception of some games, Wine doesn't really help that much. Sure, you can run Office 2003 reliably, except for Outlook and Access. We can have a debate about whether LibreOffice is a suitable replacement for Office 2024, but it is definitely better than Office 2003.

    Distros like this just end up in the uncanny valley territory of being close enough to Windows to be confusing, but not close enough to be a substitute. I recommend Linux Mint for beginners looking to make the jump to Linux. Other here will have their own recommendations which are probably equally as good.

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    1. doublelayer Silver badge
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      Re: ChromeOS looks nothing like Windows ...

      People don't object to it because it does look a lot like Chrome if you only use the browser, and most users will not be using the rest of the things Chrome OS supports because they either don't really work or they only make sense for technical users. It does look familiar to users who already use browsers most of the time anyway and can quickly grasp the idea that this is only a browser.

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  21. Antron Argaiv Silver badge
    FAIL

    Windows not the best choice.

    Yeah, ummmm, if you could take everything "Windows" and lose it permanently, that'd be greaaat.

    Look, I'll admit that Windows is a perfectly acceptable default OS, and that the apps are reasonably good at doing what they're supposed to do (should be, MS have had enough time to get it right), but can we all please admit that the only reason for its dominance is that it's been around so long that it has embedded itself into business and it's too much work to change? What is explicitly NOT correct, IMHO, is that Windows, in its many incarnations, is anywhere near the *best* operating system, for business or any other purpose. If you're starting from scratch, there are a number of better choices.

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    1. HereIAmJH Silver badge
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      Re: Windows not the best choice.

      The reason Windows continues to dominate corporate desktops is because of the tools Microsoft has created to control and maintain the desktops. User accounts and network logins controlled centrally in Active Directory. Want to shut off USB data devices, create a policy. Want all your desktops on the same OS version and patch level, WSUS (or whatever it's cloudy replacement is). It's not a fear of Linux, they're deploying RedHat servers for anything that doesn't provide integrated services for the desktops.

      Windows desktops are generally good enough, and that is all businesses need. And Microsoft continues to have the best marketing, they managed to convince businesses to put all their core security in Entra ID, FFS.

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  22. Tron Silver badge

    I would pay for....

    ...a version of Windows or Linux that looked and worked like Windows 7, rather than the horror show and unwanted gimmicks that came after it. Maybe MS will consider bagging the retro dollars at some point.

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  23. Antony Shepherd

    I recognise this naming scheme

    Surely Wubuntu is to Ubuntu as Wario is to Mario?

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    1. LessWileyCoyote
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      Re: I recognise this naming scheme

      Especially as I think I remember hearing that "Wario" was a near-enough wordplay on the Japanese word for bad, which I think is "warui".

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: I recognise this naming scheme

      I'd go with Mubuntu as the Ubuntu equivalent of Wario to Mario myself. I know it's only a single U rather than a W, but still....

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  24. gerryg

    Lindows...

    What happened to that?

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  25. Ian Johnston Silver badge

    Wasn't wubuntu the version of Ubuntu which you could install inside Windows? Or am I getting the name wrong? Whatever it was, they dropped it years ago.

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    1. Liam Proven (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      > the version of Ubuntu which you could install inside Windows?

      Wubi.

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    2. Bill Gray Silver badge
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      Wubi

      You're thinking of Wubi. Apparently, this was officially discontinued in 2013... tempus fugit.

      I wondered if anyone perhaps took up the torch unofficially, and it appears that Wubi lives on, sort of, and one can run Ubuntu 20.04.4 in it.

      I'm currently helping elderly neighbors who have a Win10 box that fails MICROS~1's hardware requirements for Windows 11. They're planning on just getting a new computer. I've been tempted to lead them into the world of Linux; a Windows-like look-and-feel might help. (They don't use any software for which there is no Windows equivalent, so there shouldn't be much trouble.)

      The only downside is that right now, when they run into troubles, I can say : "oh, Windows... I've not used that in years, can't help you." If they switch to Linux, that handy excuse evaporates.

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  26. Bebu sa Ware
    Pint

    "The lovechild of Windows and Linux"

    Isn't "lovechild" just a euphemism for contraceptive failure involving the bit on the side?

    Redmond needs to use thicker sonkies when taking a Linux lass out for a night of it if it doesn't want this daemon spawn.

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  27. Anonymous Coward
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    Uwubuntu

    I read the title wrong and thought the UI was gonna be kawaii

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  28. John_3_16

    My 2 cents:

    Spyware by any other name (M$). Charging for bits & pieces. No surprise. If you can't beat it then rename it & break it with updates that don't work. To be expected.Two chromium browser spyware choices? Not surprised there either. I used to be a fan of Frankenstein's Monster. I am NOT a fan of M$, Win 10, Win11 or any linux/ubuntu modified by M$ to be M$.

    I am still using Win7 & it is still being updated successfully monthly. Security updates daily. ZORAN is my backup & I am very comfortable/happy with it. ZORAN will become my primary after Jan 2026 unless my required uses are restricted for Win7 before then.

    I am a happy camper staying true to what has & does work for me. This "THING" does not fit that description. Putting pearls & lipstick on a pig means you still have a pig. This conglomeration is an insult to "pigs" everywhere. ;>))

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  29. Wolfclaw

    and too make it even more Windows like, to have the full capabilities, you have to donate for a licence, yep almost a Windows clone !!

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