Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoBetter yet, the OS should just include a desktop environment with simple utilities and a package manager to install the applications you want. It will make users less likely to run into malware while searching for the programs in the web
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It shouldn’t include a desktop environment, I want to be able to install my own.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
We’re talking about Windows here, where the desktop environment is too thoroughly intertwined with the rest of the OS to ever remove it. The kind of terminal emulator environment that Linux boots into doesn’t even exist in versions of Windows that have been sold after the early 2000s.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I was talking more in the lines of taking away most of the windows bloat. If someone wants to install their own desktop environment they will most likely go down the linux path.