What would have happened if Windows hadn't existed?
Mac dominanceAmiga would still be gone because its owners were too quarterly profit driven
>>107516665KDE would rule the desktop market.
>>107516665We'd be using OS/2 instead.Thinkpads would still be good.That's about it.
>>107516665Someone else would have become the facto standard operating system that everyone uses and they would have used the same unfair practices Microsoft used to maintain that position.Since this other system would now be the system everyone uses, it's the one everyone hates and curses at.In that parallel universe, everyone wishes some other OS had won. One by a different, hopefully better company. But we're from one of those other universes and we know: it's just as shit.
>>107516742kde is a discount windows.If windows never existed, kde would not either.
>>107516665I fixted your picture, OP. It was broken.
Acorn would dominate and ARM would be a desktop platform instead of mobile.
>>107516689this, they got UI right, stolen from xerox but still
>>107516943KDE was actually a pun on CDE.
>>107516954What stops the windows community to just take 7 and patch it themselves to keep it current?
>>107516665Free software utopia. Microsoft was set up in the mid 70s by the deepstate alongside CONTU and pursued an agenda of making sure that the software you run on computing devices is not free.MS-DOS released alongside congress redefining copyright to give software equivalent protection to literary works in the early 1980s.You can see the screed of Bill Gates writ clear in the open letter to hobbyists, openly lamenting an inability to seek rent for ideas released to the public.Microsoft would later go on to block the emergence of new operating systems like TRON by leveraging their deep state connections.
>>107516665C:\>
>>107516665You wouldn't know if it's dark outside.
>>107517083They're windows users.
>>107516665Desktop PCs would be less popular overall desu.I respect them for what they did in the past, but still condemn them for everything post 2010.
>>107517108Yeah, like they didn't developed emulators n' shiet or don't their way around the system enough to exploit. And yes I'm not talking about your average normie, but those who actually push the system.
>>107516689Macs were too expensive for widespread adoption. DOS and Windows were a big thing because you could cobble together a bunch of parts to make a cheap frankenmachine if you were a poorfag. People with more money bought pre-built machines with lower odds of conflicts or bad drivers.
>>107517083Because they don't have the source code. The amount of changes you can realistically make to a compiled binary is quite limited. You can't really make any major functional changes. Some features are impossible to implement with patches.
>>107517087Copyrighting software is like saying you can't use integer math without a license. It's so philosophically retarded.
>>107517198Windows source code is all on the dark web.
Total pc and soft death, i suppose.I can use stuff from 20, even 30 years ago on win10. Can you do the same on mac or linux?
>>107517322Yes I can?
>>107517322you seem to be thoroughly retardedi can run more shit on linux than you can on wintrashthis is dungeon keeper, a game from 1997were you even born at that time?
>>107517369>i can run more shit on linux than you can on wintrashHeh, whanna bet on that?
>>107517388its an ez win for loonix>but muh wslexactly.
>>107517369>he says while using wine/dosbox.Linux can't make anything new, only copy and hope it works.
>>107517408yeah, except everything embedded from routers, to fridges, to car systems, to phonesoh, you though consumershit is the only thing that runs on linux?
>>107516665Apple would have a monopoly.>b-but linuxFreetard shit will never be popular due to freetards' autism. The sane people who try to make linux usable have to constantly fight against hordes of autistic freetarded naysayers.
>>107517429>hordes of autistic freetarded naysayers.sounds like cope for being unable to write a gui
>>107516665Desktop computing would be all MacOS, I suppose and computers would be unupgradable, locked down shitboxes.
>>107517408The foundation of human ingenuity is copying something and hoping it works, especially complicated systems like software.Even Microsoft is just copying and hoping it works.
I grow so tired of 10 babies11 is what they truly deserve, all of the bad things
>>107517083If anyone had that ability I would kidnap them and force them to do that for 8.1 instead.
>don't switch to Windows XP it's spyware and bloat!>don't switch to Windows 7 it's spyware and bloat!>don't switch to Windows 8 it's spyware and bloat!>don't switch to Windows 10 it's spyware and bloat!>don't switch to Windows 11 it's spyware and bloat!Crazy how in 25+ years of using Windows, I have never had any of my data stolen or used against me. And every version of Windows runs better with less crashes. Remember the Blue Screen of Death? Haven't seen that shit in forever.
>>107517755>, I have never had any of my data stolen or used against melol lmao
>>107517755>He posts this in a thread were every poster has stolen his identityPoor, deluded Anonymous
>>107517780You have?
>>107517755I used Windows ME till 2023, then I switched to Windows 2000, skipped XP, went to 7 around 2009.
BeOS would dominate the desktop market.
>>107517299Upload it on a mega then
>>107517836Everyone has
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>>107516943anon, KHTML is the basis of webkit which is the basis of ChromeEverything started with KDE at some point, it was always the driver of innovation.
>>107516665>Windows 7: your elderly but still sharp and healthy mom>Windows 10: your mom's ashes>Windows 11: a fleshlight an indian guy made from your mom's ashes
>>107516665Because windows 10 was the worst OS, before windows 11 came out.
>>107518267Not me.
>>107517627based 8.1 god
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>>107516665>What would have happened if Windows hadn't existed?Something else, retard.
>>107516665OS2 would be a lot more popular i tell you hwat
>>107516954Please don't post my inner monologue here.
