[bjelkeman-again]

Developers build many of the applications that make the platform desirable. Steve Ballmer at least seem to get that part. ;)

[internet2000]

The developers for their platforms. Which, crucially, Linux developers are not.

[walterbell]

Apple Macbooks support virtualization of Linux on MacOS.

[bigyabai]

That's a low bar. Microsoft does too, with a much better hypervisor.

[walterbell]

Yes, Linux developers are officially supported by both Apple and Microsoft, with Microsoft developers being a major contributor to upstream Linux and WSL2 having grown into a capable Linux development environment.