I 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...
This 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.
I had to check the date, I though it was April 1st.
Feels similar to Lindows - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
Trademark? Can they just use the term Windows?
First 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.
Microsoft be like "Make it until you fake it!"
Yeah, this is not official at all. The site's footer says it was made with Joomla, and the contact page lists Brazilian phone numbers.
Forked from: https://www.linuxfx.org/
And they “forked” that whole site, so extra suspicious.
This is so cursed. I love it.
This almost feels like satire when Linux desktops actually have better UX than Windows nowadays (not you GNOME, I'm looking at KDE).
Don't people remember Lindows and the like? I don't see much of a market
But why
Good luck getting sued! :)
that whole page looks very sketchy. Charging for it no less, I see a take down by Microsoft coming.
Error 500?
Honestly 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.
Come on baby, run Linspire...
Because they charge $35 for this counterfeit windows, I don't think Microsoft will be kind.
Who is the market for this?
Noname laptop manufactures? Grandma who does not need to learn another UI? OS fanboys who need a laugh?
Ah yes, combining two of the worst OSes out there, what a time to be alive...
I 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.