Linux is built on C, but that doesn't mean you have to code in C for it. Windows is not popular because developers code in C++; it is popular because Windows makes using computers easy for non-technical people; it thus became a popular environment to code for because it has a large user-base. You can code in any language for any platform so long as a suitable compiler/linker exists.

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I agree 100% with this. In fact, some flavors of Linux even come with C and C++ compilers. There can also be a Java compiler (gcj, along with the byte-code interpreter gij), an Ada95 compiler (gnat) and even a Fortran77 compiler (g77). Then there is gas, the GNU Assembler, which is able to assemble things for many architectures as well as nasm, the Netwide Assembler, which is available for many operating systems, including Windows and various flavors of Linux, though I'm not a fan of nasm really. You can also use the JDK on Linux for Java development too. And there is an open source project known as mono that provides the tools necessary to run and develop .NET applications on Linux, Windows, OS X and more. There are also various flavors of BASIC that you can use. In fact, FreeBASIC is a 32-bit compiler implementation and extension of QuickBASIC that happens to be available for Linux, Windows and even DOS for those that wish to develop for DOS (FreeDOS exists after all).

In short, if you want to compile something in a certain language on Linux (barring various Assembler syntaxes like MASM and TASM and nasm since they aren't quite 100% compatible), chances are good that you can find something that will do it.

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well, I kind of agreed with your point where Windows makes users' life much easier than if the users are using linux. But there are still several projects that linux developers had such as Linspire (which originally Lindows, and then sued by Microsoft because they're really similar to Windows) that is pretty powerful and easy to use. In fact, it is easier than Windows because they're using this embedded program called Click-N-Install or something like that.

But the bad thing about Linspire is just that you have to pay subscription to use this feature every year. Which I think is not as convenient as windows. I'm thinking if there's a way to urged developers to create .exe kind for Linux environment.

Linspire development is trying to kind of copy the environment that is there in Windows in the Linux based environment.

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I don't understand why you say 'but'; you've completely agreed with me. Windows is easy for non-technical people to use. Lindows is an attempt to copy that ease of use for non-technical people. Easy installations are about ease of use for non-technical people. Anyway, we're getting away from the thread topic, which has been pretty much answered in full.

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