nicsure

Why there is no MacOS/Linux support (and likely never will be)

Added 2025-05-05 01:53:44 +0000 UTC

First and foremost, I don't have a Mac, and I never will have.

MacOS is the most tiresome, troublesome and expensive OS on the planet developer wise. Quite frankly, I don't need or want that noise.

Windows is easy and free to develop on. Bish-bosh and you have an exe you can distribute. Try doing that on MacOS or Linux!! Hint: You can't.

There is currently no development platform that supports visual UI building & rapid deployment which can support all desktop OSes. I develop on Windows with Visual Studio because it's fast, free, easy and absolutely destroys any other development platform.

So if you have a Mac all I can say is that you chose the wrong machine to be doing stuff like this. Same goes for Linux, while it is fine to use for most things, it's not AT ALL developer friendly and there is a serious lack of development tools for visual UI building.

There is a reason why most radio manufacturers only have Windows based tools available, this is the same reason I do not support Linux or MacOS:
- It's too much trouble, too much work and takes far too long -