Is This What Windows 12 Lite Could Look Like?

better than normal mac os

In my own experience and opinion one of the best improves ever Windows have had from its beginning in 1995 was the Dark Theme. That said, for Windows 12 I expect at least an optional a complete Dark environment which apply the Dark Theme all over the OS including the logon screen, and not only a half-functional one like we have now. Dark Theme it's not only beautiful as style itself, it's also friendly to your eyes and electric bills and help to extend the life of your monitor's leds.

As a former Windows user, I would say that the idea of a status bar and a dock is a good one; It's just that the status bar here is two fat taking much of space on the desktop, considering that a window will only take space between the fat dock and the fat status bar.

Do you really see Microsoft ever releasing a lite version of Windows?

Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop and MacOS inspirations? I really hope MS doesn't go this route.

imo it is too transparent

Microsoft copying macOS? No way! I'm shocked!

What do I want in Win 12? Enough with the flawed updates, the constant reboots, the BSOD that tell you nothing about what caused the crash, the permanent telemetry, the temp folder that never clears properly, the seemingly 100 background processes that hog RAM just in case you want to open a program.
To concentrate effort on making things look pretty is no substitute for usability, functionality and not have to go through 5 menus to find a setting

Don't like the dimensionless lusterless dock like taskbar on the landing page. The rest looks really good. Dark mode has pontential but needs just a little more tweaking.