He's using python for the Kinect image processing and balistics math so it's easy to implement in windows. If you move to a RTOS you lose these luxuries.

Python is also available to run in microcontrollers, RTOS or no OS at all.

python available on linux or macos.

Yes and...? Neither Linux (normally) or MacOS an RTOS, what would he gain by switching to them?

In the case of Linux you could entirely eliminate almost everything else using CPU time such as window management in a way not really practical for Windows.

There'd be some advantage if:

* you have Linux Kinix Python libs and drivers.

* You can use a very minimal Linux distro that starts little to nothing else up

It'd probably be better than running on Windows, but still not as nice as running real time, or close to real time (e.g. having a small C, Go or Rust program that runs on a custom Linux image where it runs as init)

I assumed it was related to the Kinect usage.

I was thinking more Woz than Jony but yes very good engineering going on here, for a casual side project.

Kinect V2 only has drivers for windows.

It seems this thread and all of the comments are a windows-hate circle jerk.

That is only because you miss the point.

Windows is not a real-time OS. There is no reasonable expectation for it to perform as one in places where one is required.

In this case, what is required is only a "soft-real-time" OS, which even Linux can manage. But for this sort of project it is more usual to use a microcontroller.

Programming microcontrollers is, incidentally, much more fun than programming a big'n'sloppy desk OS like windows ... or linux.

It only seems that way because of fanboyism. My comment suggesting Linux is currently sitting on -4 points. Windows fanboys feel bad when Windows is questioned. It's not based on logic, it's just a bizarre attachment to the only OS they've ever seriously used.

Even Linux would be a vast improvement. This guy needs a friend to help him port the code to a better platform.