Done in Microsoft Windows. Hackers who believe in freedom and sharing probably want to move to Linux or a BSD (or some more exotic open source platform) if they haven't already.
Atheros · 3d ago
Windows: 71% market share
Ubuntu: 0.89% market share
No volunteer is going to put in the effort to support Ubuntu especially when the other ~5% of linux users would complain that you aren't supporting their even less used linux variant. They would then do a crappy job of adding support for their distribution and absolutely none of it would work.
neilv · 3d ago
If you develop for Linux, shouldn't the software build and run on all the distros (with the end user doing the building using "./configure" until the distro picks it up and packages it)? Even for hardware interfacing with SDR devices?
berbec · 3d ago
Yes. Yes it should. In practice, 100% "./configure" success is a pipe dream.
neilv · 3d ago
A pipe dream that's somehow worked for decades.
garbagewoman · 3d ago
That’s interesting but I wonder what relevant stats are for the users of these libraries
Ubuntu: 0.89% market share
No volunteer is going to put in the effort to support Ubuntu especially when the other ~5% of linux users would complain that you aren't supporting their even less used linux variant. They would then do a crappy job of adding support for their distribution and absolutely none of it would work.