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You should be nagging Intuit, Dassault Systèmes, etc. rather than the people that need Windows-only software.



That's a standard generic response, but in this case the specified software is Matlab, which runs perfectly on Linux - I use it several times a year on my Ubuntu machine.


I'm not sure why the people saying "just switch OS!" can speak generally, but I have to speak specifically to Matlab.

Many companies run more than one program, even when one of those programs is Matlab.


To say nothing of the applications and hardware you may wish to use with Matlab and which require Windows.


No company is going to waste time developing, testing and maintaining a new OS port of their software for 0.3% of their userbase. It just doesn't make any sense.


I'm happy to nag both




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