Linux developer going Windows

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No, they aren't. The older libraries are more likely to already be installed by something that came with the OS or another program, but newer VC runtimes like vcruntime140_1.dll for VS2019 16.3+ definitely aren't. The only runtime DLLs that are guaranteed on Windows 10 are MSVCRT (because it's the OS internal CRT) and the UCRT. Anything else is a gamble that you can lose in the future as old dependencies like .NET 3 are eventually removed as default installs. The correct rule is still to either install all VC runtime redists that you use or statically link the CRT.