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The Windows Ubuntu Operating System
- irongeek 3y agothat whole page looks very sketchy. Charging for it no less, I see a take down by Microsoft coming.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoI need some further explanation what I'm looking at. Is this a themed ubuntu with heavy wine integration to provide some windows functionality? Ugh, not a fan of their demo video. They showcase office compatibility by using the o365 web apps. Thats pretty deceptive imo.
- jackjeff 3y agoYes pretty much. Custom theme that you have to pay for eventually (free for 30 days) plus wine integration and some pre installed apps.
- blkhawk 3y agoI think the way you have to pay adds to the realism :P
- iforgotpassword 3y agoSo they're ripping wallpapers and icons from Windows, copy the design, and want money for that. Let's see how long this will stay up...
- zokier 3y agoHeck, just trademarks alone would be enough to take this down, both from Canonical and Microsoft. > Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries Somehow I have a feeling that this was not approved by Canonical
- prmoustache 3y agoI am pretty sure the whole point is trolling.
- CodeCompost 3y agoTrademark? Can they just use the term Windows?
- Animats 3y agoError 500?
- muststopmyths 3y agoThis is great, but I'm going to wait for service pack 2, hopefully with included invasive telemetry, candy crush and an antimalware scanner that makes every IO 100x slower. I am really tempted to try this in a VM just to see how far it goes.
- wizzledonker 3y agoI fail to see the purpose of this. Call me harsh, but I think this is one of those things that is fun to create but not very useful. Possibly that's the reason it was made. The reasoning has everything to do with confusion. This will be a de-facto leaky abstraction of an experience. Many windows programs will not work and require debugging. It isn't clear to the user that this is actually Ubuntu, so the system ultimately becomes less usable when something (inevitably) goes wrong as you are now dealing with nuances of two different systems at once. I can only see this being useful in situations where a user has learned the 'bare minimum' of windows functionality and needs to be presented with a similar UI ('fooled') to be able to function in the OS at a basic level. EDIT: And they offer a paid version that 500s? This is starting to read like very suspicious software...
- smitty1e 3y agoI predict the end state of Windows is a user experience like Aqua is on Darwin for Apple. That is, Wubuntu = Darwin. If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, ActiveDirectory and Exchange are where the money is, then why bother?
- low_tech_punk 3y agoMicrosoft be like "Make it until you fake it!"
- rkwz 3y agoFeels similar to Lindows - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
- AdrenalinMd 3y agoHaha, reminds me of the commercial song Common baby run Linspire/Lindows ;) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ
- tobiasbischoff 3y agoBut why
- fetzu 3y agoApril 1st is merely months away !
- living_room_pc 3y agoWho is the market for this? Noname laptop manufactures? Grandma who does not need to learn another UI? OS fanboys who need a laugh?
- rhplus 3y agoContact page has a Brazilian phone number. Expect to see this advertised as “Windows 12” on cheap laptops in back alley electronic stores across BRIC countries.
- vmfunction 3y agoClassic!
- living_room_pc 3y agoCant wait to see the box it comes in. 1TB RAM! or terrible LLM branded as Ask Jeeves
- frozenport 3y agobasically no-name manufactures can get a free version of Windows
- diego_sandoval 3y agoThis is so cursed. I love it.
- busymom0 3y agoFirst time, the site didn't load at all. Second time, it couldn't load the CSS and everything looked like plain html. Third time, it gave me a ERRO 500.
- benob 3y agoI had to check the date, I though it was April 1st.
- speedgoose 3y agoBecause they charge $35 for this counterfeit windows, I don't think Microsoft will be kind.
- pulse7 3y ago"counterfeit windows" -> the term "windows" is generic and shouldn't be a trade mark anyway...
- pgeorgi 3y agoThat argument was tried by Lindows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com.... While it looked like it'd hold up in Anglophone countries (and so Microsoft withdrew to avoid losing the trademark officially), others sided with Microsoft.
- speedgoose 3y agoIt’s not only the term "windows". Take a look at the screenshots.
- ecmascript 3y agoGood luck getting sued! :)
- flohofwoe 3y agoThis almost feels like satire when Linux desktops actually have better UX than Windows nowadays (not you GNOME, I'm looking at KDE).
- zilti 3y agoAh yes, combining two of the worst OSes out there, what a time to be alive...
- forgetfreeman 3y agoWe pretending there's an OS out there that doesn't suck in it's own particular way? Neat.
- dimitar 3y agoDon't people remember Lindows and the like? I don't see much of a market
- ianlevesque 3y agoHonestly with Microsoft's Windows 11 direction I want to like this, but they took it too far. I don't miss the start menu and control panel, I just want really good WINE integration.
- bitwize 3y agoCome on baby, run Linspire... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ
- einherjae 3y agoFormerly Lindows, foreshadowing what will happen next.
- theturtle32 3y agoYeah, this is not official at all. The site's footer says it was made with Joomla, and the contact page lists Brazilian phone numbers.
- hnbear 3y agoForked from: https://www.linuxfx.org/ https://www.linuxfx.org/ And they “forked” that whole site, so extra suspicious.