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Well, because the userland IS Linux (or what people refer to as Linux on the desktop).

But binaries are also ELF binaries and can only be run with lxss. How do you deploy to Windows customers who are not developers?

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You dev on linux, try your best to write in a cross-platform way - then only once you've got something that works and you're fairly motivated to actually do something with it, go through the hassle to make a Windows build.

Yep, you're right. I was thinking about it from an easy to set up development environment perspective.

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