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by _tom_ 1539 days ago
It's even more common with windows-only software.
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Every single tool in the console homebrew space, I swear. And it's not like the code isn't portable, it's usually just some command-line / batch thing; but they just don't bother to compile it for anything other than Windows; and then they don't release it as OSS for you to do so, either. The number of things I've had to run under WINE...
Hmm use mac and win heavily, not found that to be the case nearly as much on win10/11.

On the rare occasion it is truly just win, it's usually made clear far more than macos only.