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Re: Windows or Linux for Wallet Software?
by
mocacinno
on 08/05/2017, 08:42:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by ETFbitcoin (1)
I am about to buy a fancy laptop primarily for the purpose of doing all my cryptocurrency stuff (but not mining).

Can anybody help me decide between Windows and Linux?  My main question is do wallets/nodes tend to be developed on Linux first or Windows first?  I want to know which platform Bitcoin clients, but also other cryptocurrency clients/wallets in general tend to get developed on first.

I am not an expert with command line, so I refer mainly to GUI type wallets.

In my personal opinion, an honest dev will publish his sourcecode on github...
In my experience, compiling a node/wallet on linux is a lot easyer than compiling one on windows.

however, i've seen some dev's publishing the windows binary long before publising the linux binary...