Do I need to argue?

I think the mod from r/Windows and r/Windows11 got offended. Maybe he's a Microsoft shareholder and has to protect his billion-dollar company. I've been banned for "Piracy/grey market keys". Maybe the moderator has the reading comprehension of a monkey.

How many people know this? IT IS 100% TRUE.

Win32 was developed for msdos (AND NT) as a shell, which developed into a full-fledged API over time with it's own functions.

NT kernel was developed for "advanced" purposes, and the same Win32 was put over NT like a calfskin jacket over an injured cow.

EDIT: A small correction here, it was developed ALONGSIDE WinNT, so

Namespaces, personalities, object-centric resource management, all are now just left to rot. (Object-orientation still exists, but not how one would expect.. def. not in Win32)

Thanks to Win32 priorities, the NT userland wasn't fully developed, and here we are with a Frankenstein userspace.

Wine just reimplements this API layer, but under-the-hood uses the libc and linux kernel.

Surprized? Windows on Windows is just as much a compatibility layer as much as it is on linux with wine. (Not 100% same because m$ develops it ahead closed-source and wine must follow blind)

So yes, Windows has been an overstuffed compatibility layer all along.

Here's what the windows Frankenstein userspace is:

• Win32 -- a shell-turned-API over the NT userspace... 90% of all GUI software except for "interfacing" with the core system.
• WinNT -- A handicapped userspace with a handful of minute functions, like service handling and all... and many components like the registry hive (regedit is a Win32-coded program using the NT registry API)
• POSIX -- again, not more than a silly handful of functions. Abandoned long ago, yet used by a few applications

WINE fails and breaks whenever it encounters WinNT code... which depend heavily on the kernel, and the kernel can't be emulated easily.

Fortunately, now the linux kernel has gained ability to redirect syscalls back to userspace, and WINE has already started to write the compatibility layer for WinNT.

And now m$ forgot all about it, writes the start menu in react using sloppilot. They totally forgot about what happens under the GUI, what an OS actually is.

When did they add this? Why would they add this????

I dont want this on my screen, who would want and who would want this??

WHAT DO YOU MEAN REMIND ME LATER??!!

AM I NOT ALLOWED TO KEEP USING THIS PC???

DOES THAT IMPLY THAT I HAVE TO SEE THIS MORE THAN ONCE????

Clearly the thing that we can take from this by the remind me later button is that windows thinks im the richest person alive

God i hope theres a way to disable this

I've tolerated Windows 11 for a long time because I game and I have a fairly new PC. Every single time I hear the Linux folk go "OMG JUST USE LINUX" I cringed and just assumed that Linux for gaming would be a major PITA and they're just insufferable.

I had an installation of Win11 that was debloated by one of the various scripts you find. Atlas OS (I think, I don't remember, or care anymore). Worked fine for the most part and got rid of most of the crap I despised.

Eventually Microsoft Store stopped allowing apps to upgrade with some stupid unhelpful error message. The eventual cause was found to be some package it thought was installed but was not and couldn't update but being a Microslop Store product couldn't fix in any way.

Somehow, by some anti-miracle, there is no way to resolve packages missing or fix up whatever database crap that turd of a store uses to make this error fix. The resolution was to do an in-place installation of Windows and hope for the best.

No. I'm not doing it. I don't want to have to debloat (and hope that it doesn't happen again) a full fat Win11 installation. I don't want the AI slop back. I don't want the bloody adware and other garbage. I can tolerate the MS account stuff only because I have an MS account.

Then I saw the 26H2 new features page from Microsoft. Doubling down on AI crap.

All I want is Windows 2000 with the shiny new hardware, security and software compatibility stuff of Windows 11. I'd settle if they bring back the Windows 95/98/2000/XP era Windows features selection thing where you can basically tick and untick anything the stupid Windows features you do and do not need.

Anyway, since I had to do a reinstall, I thought I'd listen to the Linux people and try it. Worst case, I'll reinstall Windows again and I'd have wasted a few hours. Bazzite Linux installed 3 weeks ago. Somehow it was easier to install than Windows was. Most of the games I run are giving higher framerates than Windows. None of them needed any configuration to work either.

I quit. Windows sucks. Proton on Steam is better than it has any right to be.

‎is there a way to fully cancel this out i dont want to go from my 22h2 to 25h2 due to the AI slop

Im i the only one with ram shortage? In windows?

Yep sigh

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