The Windows Ubuntu Operating System

https://www.wubuntu.org/

by tibudiyanto • 2 years ago

43 41 2 years ago

KeplerBoy• 2 years ago

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.

jackjeff2• 2 years ago

Yes pretty much. Custom theme that you have to pay for eventually (free for 30 days) plus wine integration and some pre installed apps.

blkhawk• 2 years ago

I think the way you have to pay adds to the realism :P

iforgotpassword• 2 years ago

So they're ripping wallpapers and icons from Windows, copy the design, and want money for that. Let's see how long this will stay up...

prmoustache• 2 years ago

I am pretty sure the whole point is trolling.

CodeCompost• 2 years ago

Trademark? Can they just use the term Windows?

chungy• 2 years ago

No, neither can they use the trademark Ubuntu.

jackjeff2• 2 years ago

I mean. They really want their Streisand moment. Imagine all the clickbait articles if they get sued

Animats• 2 years ago

Error 500?

muststopmyths• 2 years ago

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.

wizzledonker• 2 years ago

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...

smitty1e• 2 years ago

I predict the end state of Windows is a user experience like Aqua is on Darwin for Apple.

That is, Wubuntu = Darwin.

If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, ActiveDirectory and Exchange are where the money is, then why bother?

low_tech_punk• 2 years ago

Microsoft be like "Make it until you fake it!"

rkwz• 2 years ago

Feels similar to Lindows - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire

AdrenalinMd• 2 years ago

Haha, reminds me of the commercial song Common baby run Linspire/Lindows ;)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ

tobiasbischoff• 2 years ago

But why

fetzu• 2 years ago

April 1st is merely months away !

living_room_pc2• 2 years ago

Who is the market for this?

Noname laptop manufactures? Grandma who does not need to learn another UI? OS fanboys who need a laugh?

rhplus• 2 years ago

Contact page has a Brazilian phone number. Expect to see this advertised as “Windows 12” on cheap laptops in back alley electronic stores across BRIC countries.

vmfunction• 2 years ago

Classic!

living_room_pc2• 2 years ago

Cant wait to see the box it comes in. 1TB RAM! or terrible LLM branded as Ask Jeeves

frozenport• 2 years ago

basically no-name manufactures can get a free version of Windows

diego_sandoval• 2 years ago

This is so cursed. I love it.

busymom0• 2 years ago

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.

benob• 2 years ago

I had to check the date, I though it was April 1st.

speedgoose2• 2 years ago

Because they charge $35 for this counterfeit windows, I don't think Microsoft will be kind.

pulse7• 2 years ago

"counterfeit windows" -> the term "windows" is generic and shouldn't be a trade mark anyway...

pgeorgi• 2 years ago

That argument was tried by Lindows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com....

While it looked like it'd hold up in Anglophone countries (and so Microsoft withdrew to avoid losing the trademark officially), others sided with Microsoft.

speedgoose2• 2 years ago

It’s not only the term "windows". Take a look at the screenshots.

ecmascript• 2 years ago

Good luck getting sued! :)

flohofwoe• 2 years ago

This almost feels like satire when Linux desktops actually have better UX than Windows nowadays (not you GNOME, I'm looking at KDE).

zilti• 2 years ago

Ah yes, combining two of the worst OSes out there, what a time to be alive...

forgetfreeman• 2 years ago

We pretending there's an OS out there that doesn't suck in it's own particular way? Neat.

dimitar• 2 years ago

Don't people remember Lindows and the like? I don't see much of a market

ianlevesque• 2 years ago

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.

bitwize• 2 years ago

Come on baby, run Linspire...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYtKHnU4mQ

einherjae• 2 years ago

Formerly Lindows, foreshadowing what will happen next.

theturtle32• 2 years ago

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.

irongeek• 2 years ago

that whole page looks very sketchy. Charging for it no less, I see a take down by Microsoft coming.

alexwasserman• 2 years ago

Forked from: https://www.linuxfx.org/

And they “forked” that whole site, so extra suspicious.

The Windows Ubuntu Operating System

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