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If it's written for linux it can be made to work well with BSD and Mac. Windows is just weird in that respect.
by P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
If it's written for linux it can be made to work well with BSD and Mac. Windows is just weird in that respect.
- bmitc 4y agoWhy is that surprising and or a fault of Windows? > If it's written for linux it can be made to work well with BSD and Mac. Maybe that's true in a theoretical sense, but it has not been my practical experience with macOS. Too many times have I found I needed a plethora of workarounds on macOS only for the same thing to work flawlessly on Ubuntu.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agonote that I never claimed platform specific needs didn't exist, but that those needs are far easier to meet on Mac and BSD than on Windows.
- bmitc 4y agoI just don't agree with that, and it doesn't match my experience. It's only true if things are biased towards Linux.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoYou mean unix, and yes, Windows is the odd man out and as such is the most difficult in terms of cross-platform compatibility. It doesn't matter WHY, but it is.
- ryandrake 4y agoIt's still just a different flavor of ice cream, even if a really, really weird flavor. Linux is strawberry ice cream, BSD is chocolate ice cream, Unix is vanilla ice cream, macOS is avocado-and-mint sherbet. Most of these easy-to-port-to platforms are just plain or exotic flavors of ice cream. Windows is hamburger.