I think this is actually possible. The (terribly inconvenient and piecemeal) change from Control Panel to Settings has involved making a lot of the Windows configuration options accessible through PowerShell and .NET (which is actually a good thing - it makes it much easier to administrate a system remotely via command prompt vs RDP, and it makes it easier to configure the system programmatically). It’s not complete yet, but I could see that in the future the Windows user environment is entirely built on top of .NET, at which point you could theoretically run it on any OS that supports .NET.
While I get the Microshaft hate, it’s still a major part of enterprise computing and it’s not going away anytime soon. Both the .NET platform and .NET Core are open source, so rebuilding Windows on them would necessarily make it a more open system, which could only be a good thing.
I dunno, I think they make more from server and that tech stack is still likely to be proprietary as hell. And Linux doesn’t really have anything that could adequately take the place of Active Directory and group policy (I mean, you could, but it would be a ton of work getting it up and running at a similar level). They could also still sell their OS with the promise of everything working the same as people are used to out of the box.
But I don’t think they’ll go that direction, at least not for a while
I think this is actually possible. The (terribly inconvenient and piecemeal) change from Control Panel to Settings has involved making a lot of the Windows configuration options accessible through PowerShell and .NET (which is actually a good thing - it makes it much easier to administrate a system remotely via command prompt vs RDP, and it makes it easier to configure the system programmatically). It’s not complete yet, but I could see that in the future the Windows user environment is entirely built on top of .NET, at which point you could theoretically run it on any OS that supports .NET.
Except that would be negative not positive. Microsoft is all about making lots of money and measuring KPI.
While I get the Microshaft hate, it’s still a major part of enterprise computing and it’s not going away anytime soon. Both the .NET platform and .NET Core are open source, so rebuilding Windows on them would necessarily make it a more open system, which could only be a good thing.
I dunno, I think they make more from server and that tech stack is still likely to be proprietary as hell. And Linux doesn’t really have anything that could adequately take the place of Active Directory and group policy (I mean, you could, but it would be a ton of work getting it up and running at a similar level). They could also still sell their OS with the promise of everything working the same as people are used to out of the box.
But I don’t think they’ll go that direction, at least not for a while