Also note that the Driver Station runs a version of Linux.
As for why you can't program in Linux out of the box, it essentially comes down to market share, so blame capitalist economics for that one. Checking
statistics on operating system usage on the internet (roughly proportional to OS usage on desktop/workstation computers overall), shows that Linux occupies less than 1% of the market. This means small return on investment for a company choosing to port their software to Linux.
--Ryan
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