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Ask HN: What Architectural Decisions Make You Prefer Windows Dev over Linux?

3•Decabytes•3h ago

What specific architectural decisions or features in Windows do you find more appealing or advantageous compared to Linux? Whether it's about system performance, compatibility, user interface design, or any other technical aspect?

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JohnFen•3h ago

None. If my job didn't require it, I'd never use or develop for Windows.

spacedcowboy•3h ago

Wait, there are people who prefer Windows over Linux for architectural reasons ?

I can understand people doing it for work reasons - gotta pay the bills, but by choice ?

PaulHoule•3h ago

For one thing, Windows got something like Wayland in Windows Vista back in 2007. It is 18 years later and some linux distros still use X.

10 years ago I found it an aggravation that Linux desktops did not pay attention to little details like font metrics so it was not unusual for a label to overflow the space for it. In the past 2 years or so I have had Ubuntu desktop machines that I like using so I think it has gotten better.

I am not really a "Windows Dev", I use Windows to develop web-based applications that often run on Linux servers. Long ago I used to write Silverlight applications with WPF and it was cool, I've got no idea how I would start writing a Windows native GUI program today, however it seems that Microsoft isn't all that sure and would consider "use Electron" or "What the hell is wrong with you? Just make a web app."

fsflover•2h ago

I guess you can read why people are still work on ReactOS: https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ#Why_not_use_UNIX_instea...