Is this a themed ubuntu with heavy wine integration to provide some windows functionality?
Ugh, not a fan of their demo video. They showcase office compatibility by using the o365 web apps. Thats pretty deceptive imo.
Call me harsh, but I think this is one of those things that is fun to create but not very useful. Possibly that's the reason it was made.
The reasoning has everything to do with confusion. This will be a de-facto leaky abstraction of an experience. Many windows programs will not work and require debugging. It isn't clear to the user that this is actually Ubuntu, so the system ultimately becomes less usable when something (inevitably) goes wrong as you are now dealing with nuances of two different systems at once.
I can only see this being useful in situations where a user has learned the 'bare minimum' of windows functionality and needs to be presented with a similar UI ('fooled') to be able to function in the OS at a basic level.
EDIT: And they offer a paid version that 500s? This is starting to read like very suspicious software...
That is, Wubuntu = Darwin.
If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, ActiveDirectory and Exchange are where the money is, then why bother?
I am really tempted to try this in a VM just to see how far it goes.
And they “forked” that whole site, so extra suspicious.
While it looked like it'd hold up in Anglophone countries (and so Microsoft withdrew to avoid losing the trademark officially), others sided with Microsoft.
Noname laptop manufactures? Grandma who does not need to learn another UI? OS fanboys who need a laugh?
