Windows 10

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Originally Posted by stinglikeabee

It would not make sense for NI to have to run support for additional operating systems. Focusing on one basic common operating software (Windows) helps reduce software issues by eliminating the need to spread resources and cross-compile. This (FRC) isn't a commercial product and doesn't have the same requirements or an income stream that would lend itself to such a large cost increase. Adding one full time engineer to develop and maintain a separate branch of the driver station could cost NI $150-250k depending on what the fully-burdened cost of that employee is.

I think the only way it would work effectively is if the driver station could only run on Linux. It would be a huge pain for the FTAs to add another large variable (operating system) into the debugging process, not to mention the cost of maintaining the separate build, like you mentioned.

On another note, though, it doesn't seem like it would be very hard for NI to make the driver station work on Linux, because (I'm pretty sure, I haven't had much experience with it) LabView can be compiled for Linux without many/any changes.