by freeopinion ·
A lifetime ago some Linux advocates worried that the advent of Wine would reduce the incentive to produce native Linux apps.
Today some people believe that the heroics of Valve and others have finally made it possible to use a Linux desktop for daily gaming, including playing Windows games.
I wonder why WSL hasn't made the scales tip the other direction. Today's devs could build AutoCAD for GTK and have it run in Windows and Linux. Photoshop for KDE could run in Linux and Windows.
So what is so compelling about Windows native apps today that keeps Big Software locked in? What does Windows offer these devs that is missing in Linux?