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Comment by wosined

11 days ago

Why not just use Linux?

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jatari  11 days ago

Because some developers would like to make money at some point.

  • zer0zzz  11 days ago

    Then why would they make applications for a dying platform? Is there some budding market for native win32 apps that I'm not aware of?

zer0zzz  11 days ago

To play devils advocate, Linux does pose some issues as far as a stable platform base. They don't even guarantee glibc compatibility afaik.

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