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> Nowadays OS matters pretty little.

Unless you use iTunes to sync your music to your computer and iDevice or you're a music producer in need of using the best DAW software, or perhaps you're a creator that uses the Adobe suite to create the best media content you need, etc, then the OS does matter very much since millions of users still use this type of software.

The most important part of this is that the software must be officially supported; and not be at some 'experimental' stage, especially since these users do not play around with their computers and they focus on getting things done.

macOS and Windows users are the 'real' big picture and the 99% of users and that matters. Not the 1% of Linux users.

To Downvoters: So it makes business sense to ignore the 99% of users on Windows and Mac and target the 1% of your userbase running Linux and support as many distros as possible to cover the many users who could be running whatever distro they have installed?

Have you considered what the 'definition of Linux support is?' and the cost of testing for all of that is?



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