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[–] 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.