Ideas for improvement

[Nokkaelaein]

How else can you get rid of such garbage like Avast, AVG, or Avira, if not through direct access from, let's say, a Fedora live CD/pendrive?!

Removing software so that it _cannot run_ is an entirely different problem to solve than migrating installed software from one OS to another, as is, so that it _can run_.

[AlexKidd]

How else can you get rid of such garbage like Avast, AVG, or Avira, if not through direct access from, let's say, a Fedora live CD/pendrive?!

Removing software so that it _cannot run_ is an entirely different problem to solve than migrating installed software from one OS to another, as is, so that it _can run_.

I was referring to NTFS file system access from a live Linux ISO.

How can all of this be automated:

!. Live ISO scans NTFS file system for directories.

2. GUI wizard lists the usual, or all in "Advanced mode" Windows directories, like Pulpit, user folders, x86 and x64 Program Files to check off which to keep.

3. Live ISO installer first partitions just enough space for the chosen Windows directories, and moves them to this new partition.

4. Live ISO partitions the rest of the disk and installs the distro from the live ISO (hopefully MX), next merges the 2 partitions together.

5. The newly installed distro scans the integrated Windows Program Files folders for .exe files and components, checks every .exe file online what problems occur during a standard .exe execution attempt, if any further Windows system DLLs are required by Wine, Proton, or any other MS Windows compatibility layer, and if so, and it doesn't require a license, downloads all of it to the required Wine or Proton directories.

6. Finally, every working Windows.exe file gets listed in the distro apps launcher, dedicated to Windows software.

Another whole new different idea would be a new, very lightweight DE, even more lightweight than Xfce, like Enlightenment light, but with Compiz built in, cause if there's any eye candy capable of selling Linux, personally, I feel nothing does it like Compiz! Put everything on a transparent dock, like MacOS, with transparent and "zoomable" home screen widgets you just need to hover the pointer over, to zoom in big and opaque from the background. And give it a pretty tropical fish aquarium live wallpaper, or some Tamagoochi interactive alligator feeding live wallpaper, or something like that capable of capturing a given audience, even allowing them to get more users, like those annoying fb game requests (for me they're sure annoying)!

[AlexKidd]

And automatically give access to the Wine settings of the given .exe program from the window it's running in, like screen resolution! Instead of manually going into Wine options in what resolution, what volume played, etc you want the given MS Windows program running, make it available from the very program window, like you have minimize and optimize! You guys dig?

[Eadwine Rose]

There is a part of the word 'no' that you are not getting. If the Oracle says 'not gonna happen' then you can go on till you see blue in the face, but it is not gonna happen. So.. either you make one of your own, or go ask elsewhere. MX obviously isn't the place to provide.

[arjaybe]

I've never been a Windows user, but I see a lot of Windows users (and ex-Windows users) on Linux forums. Most of them keep Windows for those things that they can't (yet) do in Linux, while learning. I've seen a lot of them say that they still have a Windows install even though they only go into it to let it update, and a lot who decide to finally cut it loose. Rather than asking the devs to make their Linux more like Windows, they make the effort to wean themselves from the legacy system.

I think there is a place for people who want to make a Linux distro that saves people from the effort, and I encourage them to get busy and create one.

[AlexKidd]

[Adrian]

I don't get religiosity when it comes to OS, I use Windows at work and I'm perfectly fine with it. I put MX in WSL and I'm also fine with it (it has some limitations over running it on real hardware, but that's fine with what I can do on a work machine).

Linux is fun and it's free... don't make it unfun for people to use because you are on a high horse preaching about it. Also, I doubt most of the people here use Linux because they want to run programs under wine... if you want to run Windows programs you are better off with Windows.

[j2mcgreg]

The proposition was presented and rejected. This thread is locked.