Vitalik Buterin has an open source solution for Elon Musk’s Microsoft OS issues.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin believes that the open source operating system (OS) Linux is the perfect solution to Elon Musk's Microsoft Windows OS issues. A day after Musk complained about not being able to install Microsoft's Windows OS on a newly purchased computer without a Microsoft account, he invited it to the desktop Linux community.

Like Windows, iOS, and Mac OS, Linux is an operating system, but unlike most, Linux is open source. Linux OS was first released in September 1991, and over the years, it has gained popularity with its user base. Today's popular mobile operating system, Android, runs on Linux OS.

Open source software has source code available for anyone to view, change, and modify. When the source code of a computer program is available to programmers, they can improve it by adding new features or fixing broken parts.

Buterin is a big time open source advocate; Therefore, his proposal did not come as a surprise to many. Many users have praised Buterin for promoting open source software on X. However, a few others note that Linux may not be the best option for Musk, whose main focus of using the PC will be gaming.

Ever since I used Linux; Good for development, but not sure about gaming. Steam seems to have an installer for Linux.

— Amol Jadhav (@amoljadhav00) February 27, 2024

In the year On February 26, Musk took to X to share that he can't use his laptop PC with Windows OS without a Microsoft account. He added that there was previously an “option to skip signing in or creating a Microsoft account.”

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Many users on the forum added that it is still possible to use Windows OS without a Microsoft account, which eventually led to Musk adding a community note on Twitter. However, Musk responded in a note to the community that the option is no longer available. His response to the community note got another note stating that the option is still there, but a bit more complicated than Windows 10 and requires some tricky workarounds that the average Andy doesn't know about.

Community notes are succeeding here. This option is no longer available. pic.twitter.com/b04hBivqXo

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 25, 2024

Users on the X added the complexity of the process in the opinion to ask them to go through the process, but the CEO of Tesla believes that the process does not have to be this complicated.

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