Pfff - some use Windows because they've much important things to do in their lives than to invest time and energy in learning or using Linux.
This is precisely the lazy, self-entitled attitude I'm talking about. You had a need (linux miner) and refused to meet that need by taking a few hours to set up a linux miner. Thus, you missed out on several weeks, if not months, of mining MNX at much more profitable rates.
This isn't about Windows vs Linux. This is about doing what you need to do to get things done.
I actually setup linux on a bunch of usb sticks and ran my rigs with Optiminer for a couple of those more profitable months, but when 4/570s and 4/580s are hashing just as good as my 1080tis I gave up because Optiminer wasn't advancing, it was what it was and it was pretty clear there wasn't any optimizations coming.
When this miner came out I gave it a try and WHAM!, my 1080TIs are going 20k+, more than twice what Optiminer was giving me in Linux.
To me, this just highlighted the need for a more optimized version of the miner for high end cards (I would have run this miner even if it was Linux only), if Optiminer had done it I would probably be running his miner right now, but as I said before, he thought he cornered the market and sat on an unfinished product.
Sure others may have lost out not using Linux early on, but this was a much needed miner and optiminer is the one losing out now because he didn't bother to continue developing his miner. He could have have made it totally unnecessary for another miner to be developed by optimizing his for high end cards and putting out a Windows miner (as I said, i would be fine without Windows version, but it is easier).
Optiminer opened the door for this project by ignoring the users requests for improvements and a Win version.