I'd be interested to see the kind of hoops one would have to go through to run Linux-only software on Windows with a reverse-engineered frontend made by a singl

I'd be interested to see the kind of hoops one would have to go through to run Linux-only software on Windows with a reverse-engineered frontend made by a single guy on his free time. There are plenty of valid arguments about Linux on desktop, but this is not one of them.