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dear twitter should i make my own linux distro

“you mean gnu/linux?”

no, win32/linux

i have a very specific vision for the kind of os i want but idk if it's a good use of my time

@hikari wait...

you mean userspace would be *entirely* win32? init would be running under wine?

@SoniEx2 not sure what init would be, maybe systemd, but yes as much of userspace as possible would be wine

@hikari @SoniEx2 imagining Linux fileutils included but you have to go into a binary named wsl.exe to use them

@hikari @SoniEx2 Well what I am thinking is that "WSL" can already mean multiple things (WSL1/WSL2) so if you expose the wsl interface (e.g., wslpath.exe, maybe use same mount points for win32 drive) then people who're already accustomed to making use of WSL will just find it is a drop in replacement vs what they're used to

Like maybe you could do BETTER than wsl but cross compatibility could lead to wins. Sometimes in my Windows tools I include "and here's how to use it from WSL" steps

@mcc @SoniEx2 yeah taking advantage of that familiarity would totally make sense! since the idea is you'd be using windows applications for as much as possible, it would already be reasonable to have a linux shell proxy available in wine land, and wsl.exe is the perfect name

@hikari @SoniEx2 "Wine Services for Linux"

@mcc @SoniEx2 oh my god

@saagar @SoniEx2 @hikari imagine if someone invented Android but good. That would be excellent

@mcc @saagar @SoniEx2 1990's windows ce my beloved. those were truly pocket computers

@mcc @saagar @SoniEx2 you know, with like applications, and a file system. you could actually do work on those. that's what they were made for!