Comment by bigfatkitten
Comment by bigfatkitten 6 hours ago
Windows userland compatibility is outstanding. I can run most 30 year old Windows applications on Windows 11 without a problem. This makes it easy for a commercial vendor to support their applications on Windows.
The same is not at all true on Linux.
Right now at work, I’ve got a bunch of commercial apps built for RHEL9 for which I’m chasing vendors for new builds that work on RHEL10, for a variety of reasons. Dependencies like libXScrnSaver have simply been removed, and so apps linked against that library no longer work.
Funnily enough there are old Windows applications that do work on Wine, but doesn't work on Windows 11