I do not develop desktop apps professionally. But I have noodled around with a side project in windows. Professionally I work on Android apps, and I found Win

I do not develop desktop apps professionally. But I have noodled around with a side project in windows. Professionally I work on Android apps, and I found Winforms to be very fun to develop in. I use it very differently from intellij/Android Studio, but I think Visual Studio might be my favorite IDE. So as far as dev experience goes, I think I'd prefer Windows only if it makes business sense. I did spend some time looking into the cross platform options, but didn't end up going that route, so I can't really speak to that. I think you should be able to distribute through the windows store, offer free trials and subscriptions. My project hasn't gotten that far, so I don't know how well that all works. Most windows apps I've bought seem to roll their own licensing solution probably to avoid the app store tax.