

Yes, it is virus friendly, but that is only because the majority of viruses are written for Windows (the overwhelming market share). It’s there for the simplicity, ease of use, and acts as a catch all for basic personal computing. Look people, if you want the look and feel of Windows, stick to Windows. Not only does it use 1990s-style web design, but if there’s a way to actually purchase this operating system, I can’t find it anywhere. What’s different here are the potentially trademark/copyright-violating name, desktop wallpaper, and other elements which could give Windows 12 Lite a limited lifespan.Īlso, the website is truly, hideously bad. While the folks behind the project pitch it as an alternative to Windows which is more secure, faster to boot, and able to run alongside Windows 10 on the same computer, those things are true of most Linux-based operating systems. The operating system appears to be a slightly modified version of the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite with an xfce desktop environment and a Windows 10 theme to make the OS look more familiar for folks migrating from Microsoft’s operating system. Redditor hexsayeed spotted a GNU/Linux distribution called Windows 12 Lite at a computer fair recently. That hasn’t stopped some independent developers with lousy website design skills from doing just that though. The company acquired github, turned its Calculator app into an open source project, added an optional Linux terminal to Windows 10, and even developed its own Linux kernel.īut you know what the company’s probably not going to do? Release anew operating system called Windows 12 that’s based on Linux. Microsoft has embraced Linux and open source software in recent years.

