Comment on Windows Updated and is Pushing More Stuff

• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know, I had the same problem.leep asking them. I’m in the luxury position where I’ll be able to decide what we’ll be using

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  • debeluhar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not work as a company, but work I do in the company, that is preventing me from using linux. I am software delevoper, and we are developing desktop WinForms and WPF apps. The main problem here is that both WinForms and WPF are tied to Windows, and they are not working on any other OS. We would love to port those programs to another platform, but you can’t just port programs that are developed 10+ years overnight. Those project are just too big to port them in some normal time. And there are also 3rd party libraries, that we are required to use, that are made for .NET Framework only. I forgot to mention, that we are using .NET Framework, that is working only on Windows. We could use opensource .NET, which works also on Linux, but even in opensource .NET, both WinForms and WPF works only on Windows. We could use Avalonia instead, because it supports Linux also, but even that is not just straight forward. It would be easier to just create new programs from scratch, but you would still need to support older software, and we just don’t have time nor resources to do that.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Interesting. This sounds similar like the company I’m working at right now. They too have all windows desktop apps and I’m working on porting it all to web apps that simply work on whatever you want to use. Granted, this will take (current estimate) a year or 2-3, but then they’ll have an entirely new platform that is a bazillion times better than they have now and it will work with Linux without a hitch

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