I don't agree, the year was 2025. Microsoft killed it's last usable OS, HW prices skyrocketed and regardless of some software that you can't run, that's fine. Tons of software can't be run on MacOS as well, it's just a nature of it.
Lol, I hear developers everywhere telling me Jetbrains products are getting worse with every release.
But I wonder why do they tell me and not scream at jetbrains, it's not like I can fix that as sysadmin. Stop writing blogs and telling others, start rioting in their forums!
We did, very loudly. They deleted the threads. They deleted comments on their blog. Then the new CEO published a press release with a ton of outright blatant lies, and they deleted the comments calling it out.
I loved windows 8.1. It was fast, lightweight, looked clean and modern. That weird start menu wasn't really a problem for me. Too bad it got dropped by hardware manufacturers like a hot potato as soon as the objectively inferior Windows 10 came out. But maybe that's good because it made me switch to Linux full time and I couldn't be happier with it.
Why not? I think we are perfectly capable on generating a test and validation environment that we can use for correctness. Most likely llms could do this better than engineers with zero to none domain and language knowledge can do these days. From that point on, rewrites would become feasable (not easy, feasable).
Remove batch, VBS and switch from powershell 5 to 7, add bash
Replace DSC in favour of Ansible
Remove windows registries
Switch to systemd for services
Rename folders like Users to home, programdata to etc, program files to opt, store/winget apps /usr
and call it microsoft linux server hybrid
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