You're partially right.
But why spend time to build a Windows miner if it's no worth mining using Windows (i.e. using CPU).
There are several tutorials on how to setup a mining node on Linux .
It's not so difficult if you really want to mine (i.e. get free SP) to deploy one in a VM under Windows.
Then, my conclusion is that the major cause is GPU.
Thanks for commenting tho!
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I agree. The major cause was undoubtedly the GPU miners. But I was still squeezing out a few blocks here and there. The finish line was drawn by hard fork 14. After that, as you noted, it just wasn't worth the time to download all the dependencies and work through compiling it myself or to set up a linux vm.
Exactly. I didn't bother updating on the HF it just wasn't worth my time. Even before the GPU miners arrived it wasn't very profitable.
I had like one week, right after hard fork 13, where my son and I were hitting 10-15 blocks a day between the two of us. At least I didn't entirely miss all the fun. Of course, those blocks were worth something like $1.00 or $1.50 each at the time...