Posted May 12, 2019
CymTyr: Linux is fine. Unlike Windows, it is completely open source. I just read that MS is going to make Windows 11 Linux based for its kernel, too, in an attempt to.... do something? Apparently despite numbers for Linux being low, there's enough people using it in dual boot or primary setups, that MS is taking it seriously, my point being this.
hedwards: I think you misunderstood that. I didn't think they were planning on ever having a Windows 11, but to switch to rolling releases. As far as Linux goes, they aren't going to be basing the system off it, they were planing on including the kernel in the OS so that you could run Linux software more easily.
Basing their OS on Linux at this point would be suicidal. They'd give up all the advantages that come from being on a separate kernel while simultaneously gaining none of the advantages of using Linux. Also, they'd have to opensource their entire system if they did that.