Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:39:16 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 3/13/25 17:54, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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Do you think maybe the entire Windows ecosystem is fundamentally
hostile to open-source software?

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Otherwise, I have to compile from source with no guarantee that it
will work or integrate into the system as expected.

Building from source tends to be more reliable (and requires fewer steps)
on Linux than Windows. There is a guy on comp.lang.c, a Windows fanatic,
who regularly moans about this, as though it’s the fault of the developers
of Open Source.

In this respect, Windows is much better since I only have to look for an
executable to load the software, and I can be sure that it will work.

That’s what Linux package repos do: they provide that “executable” (or
library dependency or whatever). Consider that a major distro like Debian
includes something like 50,000 packages in its official repo: where are
you going to find a selection of prebuilt open-source Windows executables
that large? It doesn’t exist.