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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by invokestatic on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:22AM (#17969041)
Small startup here as well, but we target 95% Windows (going back all the way to XP) and we recently transitioned to a WSL Clang-based toolchain (linking against MSVCRT) so it would be feasible for someone to use a pure Linux environment for serious Windows development, although inconvenient because it is untestable.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by LoSboccacc on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:46PM (#17970619)
If you target xp let them test under wine, win-win for everyon
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by Narishma on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:47PM (#17971181)
And when you run into bugs, how do you know if it's an issue with your software, Wine or Windows XP?
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:01AM (#17976393)
The same way you normally tell if a bug is in the program or OS, except now it's easier because you can swap out half the equation for comparison?
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