Why I use Windows Instead of Linux

I am huge fan of linux but for some reasons I use Windows. And there are many reasons every year adding up for me using the windows. I had wasted a lot of time while developing apps for linux. And it seems the type of people who want to buy it are not on linux. Instead they are on mac and windows. This means the money I wish to earn from the development of desktop apps is not going to be an easy game. I may just have to switch to windows and serve the market there. This way I may get few things sorted and also get paying public. In this article, I wish to explain why many people who are using Windows are not yet switching to the linux.

Applications

Some of the custom applications developed by companies are exclusive to the Windows. And running them through crossover or the Wine is not going to be easy. In fact those apps are going to be crashed. And it makes you wonder if we are to be using the apps alternative on Linux or make the apps from scratch for Linux. This is one reason I think my company has yet to switch to the Linux. And this also means that windows is not something I wish to leave for the money making. You have to find out some other ways. Now that dot net core is making apps independent of the framework and OS, it can be good to see this in future.

Breaking Issues

I played with Ruby on Ubuntu for a while. Most of the time my system used to have issues with the base version of the ruby. And for this reason I wanted to switch to the new version of ruby. I know that it is not going to be easy using the Linux. But stuff breaks with ruby most of the time. I have yet to see consistent use of the ruby apart from on the mac. And for this reason I am assuming that breaking of the stuff is kind of harder when we are on windows. We can always reinstall or ask for fix. In case of Linux finding such support is not easy. So that’s one thing I have struggled the most.

Grumpy Community

Unlike windows and mac community, the people on Linux are very defensive. And they fight among each other for many small things. And this has resulted into lot of issues over a period of time. I can tell you that many people don’t like Linux users because they come off as too pushy. And that has resulted into more of an issue than solution. I think many of us don’t realize that part. But I am guessing with time this will solve soon. I am not sure how many of us can find a proper solution for this but we can only speculate on this. That being said, there are times when we can manage this type of stuff too. I think community will evolve eventually with time but we have to see how that happens in future. Now it does not seem to be that way.

I am guessing that with time many OS needs to evolve. And we just have to focus on what we can do better with the one we like.

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