Microsoft has always been end-user-hostile. You hack around it :)
Reverse-engineer it's undesirable behavior, mitigate it. The real stuff that scares me is hardware-based (secure enclave computing for example) and legal measures it is taking to prevent us from hacking it.
ReactOS exists, as does Wine. Linux is a purely monolithic Kernel, unlike NT which is a hybrid that has the concept of subsystems built into it. Linux would have to have the concept of subsystems and have an NT-interop layer (probably based off of Wine), the advantage over Wine I fail to see.
In the end, where is the demand coming from I ask? Not from Linux devs in my opinion. I suppose a Wine focused distro might please folks like you, but Wine itself has lots of bugs and errors even after all these years. I doubt it is keeping up with all the Windows11 changes even, what the author proposes, in my opinion is not practical, at least not if you are expecting an experience better than ReactOS or Wine. If it is just Win32/winapi interop layer, it might be possible, but devs would need to demand it, otherwise who will use it?
Linux users are the most "set in their way" from my experience, try convincing any Linux dev to stop using gtk/qt and write apps for "this new Windows like api interface to create graphical apps".
but ultimately, there is no harm in trying other than wasted time and resources. I too would like to see an ecosystem that learns and imitates windows in many ways (especially security measures).
> Let Linux be Linux and Windows be Windows. They're both great if you appreciate them for what they are and use the accordingly.
What if you technically prefer the Windows way, but are worried about Microsoft's behavior related to commercial strategy, lock-down, privacy...?
The author envisions a system that's technically stable as Windows, yet free as Linux.