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		ajuc on Aug 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? You can absolutely choose Linux for strictly practical reasons - if you do serverside or embedded programming choosing anything else is counterproductive. But for desktop programming Linux is a struggle.

worthless-trash on Aug 16, 2022 | [–]

And yet, successful software are developed and run on Linux.

pjmlp on Aug 16, 2022 | [–]

Doing productive distributed computing for about 25 years, most of them not spent on GNU/Linux.

Nowadays, with cloud platforms making the underlying OS transparent, even less.

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