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Haters gonna hate. Where comes all your frustrations from? I've never had any issues with dependencies on Windows. If some C++ redestributables are missing, they are commonly installed by the installer. .NET Framework the same.

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And when a library has a security update, the software which contains it does not get updated, because it's repackaged by 10,000 different software companies that don't care or don't have the resources, and they sit side by side, and disk usage is way bigger than linux. This is partly fixed by the fact that installing software is such a pita and hard to automate that you don't install much 3rd party software on windows.

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