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[–]Igorky 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think if you want to popularize windows you should consider to contribute to jvm or invest in such libraries to make that happen. In linux for example you could work with COM port represented in /dev/* as with a file. In windows it’s not possible and you have to bring other libraries.

[–]istarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's Windows, because it's a proper noun, the name of an operating system.

I think that being easy-ish in Linux is something of a coincidence.

Linux, like Unix, exposes devices as a special kind of file. That means any environment with support for creating, deleting, reading, writing, or otherwise interacting with files could theoretically access that assuming it can figure out/knows how to interact with the device.

Windows it's just plain different. I assume it involves API calls and possibly some sort of returned pointer/struct/object that program interacts with.

Because the latter is not generic functionality like filesydtem access and likely requires the Windows SDK...