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The answer to that is historic most of the original C compilers were around with DOS and Unix all we had was a command line. So on the command line you used to have to type these extremely long strings and so everyone wrote DOS batch files or unix shell scripts. Come 1976 and make was created by Stuart Feldman and it was released to public domain.

Make never really took off with DOS users as by 1983 Windows 1.0 was released and a small company called Borland began with Pascal and later C as a text GUI on the windows platform.
Borland - Wikipedia[^]

Microsoft saw the success of Borland as a threat (they used DOS command line in house) and essentially began to mimic Borland at least on the GUI (the compiler remained a dos executable) and thus was born the first microsoft compiler tools.

With no big bucks for GUI compilers being spent on linux make became a staple thing for the linux OS. Even most embedded compilers tended to stay as DOS or Windows with a couple of exceptions. So generally you could pick Windows versus Linux developers by did they know there way around make which developed it's own language.

More recently GUI compiler IDE's started to pop up in linux and so they will import and work with Make files. Windows Visual Studio now can even work with make files as it is targetting linux developers although in all honesty they would like them to move to CMake.

There is also a very subtle difference between windows and linux repositories because of the history that many linux programmers fail to notice. Most windows code has the header files for the C code files in the same directory, on most linux repositories you will find all the headers in an include directory (they seem to view it is good practice) and the source files elsewhere. The reason for the difference is Windows compilers have a specific search order which is same directory as C file, library directory and then user defined include directories. Under windows compiling #include <some.h> is very different to #include "some.h" (the first means the C system directory the second means the user defined directory) on linux repositories that difference always seems to get lost (all the code is pubic domain none is company copyrighted) they randomly they use either -l or -L and fix it in the makefile. Under Windows you start messing around with the system directories you will get in a world of hurt (as much is precompiled copyrighted) and usually only SDK's do that.
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