Maintainer of Linux Distro AnduinOS Revealed to Be Microsoft Employee
08-05-2025 22:00 via linux.slashdot.org

Maintainer of Linux Distro AnduinOS Revealed to Be Microsoft Employee

After gaining attention from Neowin and DistroWatch last week, the sole maintainer behind AnduinOS 1.3 -- a Linux distribution styled to resemble Windows 11 -- decided to reveal himself. He turns out to be Anduin Xue, a Microsoft software engineer, who has been working on the project as a personal, non-commercial endeavor built on Ubuntu. Neowin reports: As a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft (he doesn't work on Windows), Anduin Xue says he's financially stable and sees no need to commercialize A
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