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Comment by shrimp_emoji | Hacker News Reader

Windows isn't a platform for developers. It's a platform for normie consoomers. Isn't that obvious?

If you want an engineering OS, use GNU/Linux.

Until you can run a Windows-free build system with WINE (there are a few reported blockers, several others and I have tried) and PyInstaller, cross-platform apps will require developers to compile their Windows ports on Windows itself.

Windows is where the users are. Not targeting it is a bad financial decision.

Past 10 years we ship py2exe based Win32/Win64 software from WINE / Ubuntu There are no problems - we don't sign it (https://www.vintech.bg)

Thanks for the info, I was hesitant to introduce more platform-specific tools hence why I stuck with PyInstaller. I'll see if py2exe suits my needs.

To hell with cross platform. Developing for windows perpetuates a harmful ecosystem. It's really no different than selling ammo to the Sineloa drug cartel.

It’s a little bit different.

Yes that's easy advice to follow when you don't have a job

What do you mean?

At my job, we build cross-platform software, but we build it on Linux. It runs on Windows, but building it on Windows is torture, so almost all our dev machines are Linux.

I hope one day I won't have a job!

I've met uncomfortably high number of Mac users who cannot navigate the file system on their Mac.

The multi billion dollars company that I work for don't get this. I'm forced to do all me dev work on a virtual windows machine. They have their reasons, many of them valid, but it's still a pain

did you download your personality from /g/

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