MinGW doesn't integrate as well with the predominant workflows (toolchains, linking, debugging, etc.) Most Windows desktop apps are compiled using MSVC, so this

MinGW doesn't integrate as well with the predominant workflows (toolchains, linking, debugging, etc.) Most Windows desktop apps are compiled using MSVC, so this is important for many people. Just to name one issue of many, MSVC uses Microsoft's PDB format for debugging instead of GCC's DWARF.