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That reminds me of that "Windows 12" OS someone made by basically slapping a theme onto Linux lite and trying to sell it (Michael MJD made a YouTube video about it)

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Are you old enough to remember Lindows? in like 2000/2001 it was a straight Windows ripoff, even used the old Win 9x/2k theme iirc, and had WINE built in, preconfigured and would intercept windows programs automatically and run them via that. It was blatant enough MS actually took them to court, ended up settling by buying the Lindows trademark from them for 20 million and getting a pinky promise they wouldn't be so confusing to consumers by trying to pass it off as a Windows equivalent. The product was eventually renamed Linspire and continued as a noob-friendly distro with less 'Hey, we're actually Windows!'.

Lycoris Desktop->Lindows->Linspire.

Yes, we remember.

You could bypass the instalation prompt by setting up the APT repos by hand.

Lycoris didn't become Lindows, those were two separate products from two different companies. Lycoris/Redmond Linux was bought out by Mandrake/Mandriva, Lindows went on to be bought by Ximian. Same end goal though, make a blatant Windows ripoff lol.

Ah, sorry then. I always tought Lycoris became Linspire.

Wasn't Lindows the MP3.com guy? Another company that got sued out of existence, only to be "reinvented" by Apple a decade later as iTunes Match.

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