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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

@mcc @SoniEx2 hahaha i was actually thinking right now that i might want to do something along these lines for an actually good reason: the os would try to not break your shit when upgrading, but would only make this promise for your windows stuff. if you want linux stuff it'd make sense to have it in a container, at which point it must start feeling a lot like wsl…

@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