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Sure, but it's nice that Windows is coming along in terms of developer-friendliness.

• 29athrowaway 5y ago
  If you want developer friendliness, try Linux or BSD. Full source and debugging symbols for mostly everything. Everything can be tinkered with with no limits. Windows will never be like this. If you want to understand how things work there will be a limit where you will have to become a reverse engineer to do it. With Linux this is not the case.
  • least 5y ago
    Your argument kind of makes me think of Proton and the massive efforts of Wine, Valve, DXVK, and other projects that have increasingly made Linux a more attractive platform for gaming. You could argue that Linux will 'never be good enough' and if you want to play games you should just 'try Windows.' I think it's worth celebrating the efforts and the progress that has been made on Linux towards being a better platform for gamers. Is it perfect? Nope! Considering the market develops with Windows in mind, you're a lot less likely to run into issues running games on Windows, but it's definitely better than it was a few years ago. Similarly, I think that Microsoft's efforts to make Windows a better platform for developers should be welcomed! I don't think Windows is as good a platform for a lot of developers as Linux/BSD and it may never be, but the progress in that regard is praise worthy, I think.
    • 29athrowaway 5y ago
      Alternatively, you can buy a console. It's cheaper than a desktop PC. I have many games on Steam that I can run on Linux but I hardly ever play. I don't have much time for that.