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[–] BatmanAoD 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think most early adopters use Windows exclusively?

[–] Lmaydev 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well Linux desktop is at 4% so it's cutting out 96% of the market.

[–] BatmanAoD 4 points 4 months ago

...did you just completely forget about Macs? That's about 18% of the desktop market.

But they also are prioritizing mobile development (though they don't have anything working there yet) prior to Windows development. That's a much, much larger market share.

Additionally:

Early adopters are likely to be devs, and devs use Linux and Mac much more than typical end-users.
Even early adopters who do use Windows often use WSL, which now has first-class support for GUI apps.