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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. But they want everyone to know they are using Windows, which if there was a custom shell then they wouldn't.

They have >95% of the market, they don't care about making a good interface for TVs as they already lost it to Android, and they don't care about making a good gaming interface as they already have XBox.

Windows users are an inconvenience, that they want to milk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's even more funny is that they already have two, somewhat decent, interfaces which are meant for touch; Win8 tablet UI and Windows Phone Live Tiles UI.

If they want, they can easily work upon them, make them controller-friendly, and bake it into Win11. But they are too stubborn to do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They've also got the Xbox interface for controllers, the reason they don't make Windows better for this scenario is that they already have XBox and making a SwitchBox interferes with their plan to make everything shit.