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Could, or Should, Microsoft make a CLI-only/optional-DE edition of Windows?

Betonhaus

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it would be equivalent to running linux without a desktop environment installed. It would give some efficiencies to a headless server, but would work great for a test bed for Microsoft to determine what is the bare minimum needed to make a full OS and build from there - instead of trying to pare back decades of legacy code. Alternatively, if it could simply reboot into a CLI-only mode without having the desktop environment running.

It may even allow for wacky shenanigans like letting you install a linux DE through WSL or make a very basic single-app interface, or run a webpage or game directly with near zero overhead (like how Windows 95 could reboot to run NASCAR directly on DOS)
 

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