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Winux Tries to Mimic Windows While Staying Fully Linux (linuxiac.com)
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Over the years, I’ve often thought that, despite how fast-moving the desktop Linux ecosystem is, there’s not much left that could truly surprise me. Yet I keep being proven wrong, and that’s a good thing. Winux, one of the newest additions to the scene, is a clear example.

Whether I like it or not, this distribution brings back memories of about 20 years ago, when Lindows, later renamed Linspire under legal (and fully justified) pressure from Microsoft, first tried to take the path of a Linux distribution built entirely to be as close as possible to the Windows experience.

Today, several Linux distributions aim to position themselves as an easy starting point, and even a replacement for Windows users looking to switch without friction. Zorin OS is a well-known example. Even so, these projects keep their own Linux identity, with similarities to Windows being more indirect than literal.

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[–] es_eskaliert@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Every few months, another news article about yet another (assumedly) short-lived distro with a goofy ass name, a mid to good Windows-like KDE theme and its windows illusion breaking as soon as they show a screenshot from dolphin/diskover/ whrre at best the colors look different hits my homepage.

This one seems to at least have a windows-like settings app, winboat integration and even a paid licensing system built on top...

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 7 hours ago

like really why use kde at all for windowsing when the chicago95 theme for xfce is right there