[ldarby]

If Windows is required for work then you've already lost. Seriously I'm unable to be productive in Windows (or Mac, I tried). I don't know what the stats are on employers requiring Windows but my current one doesn't (mainly because of a sizable chunk of Mac users, not that there's any support for Linux).

[SoftTalker]

Where I work pretty much everyone who's not a developer or system admin uses Windows. Most of them never leave the confines of Edge, Teams, Sharepoint, Outlook, and MS Office with maybe the exception being Zoom. It's an enterprise config of some sort so it more or less stays out of their way. Windows Home sounds absolutely horrific and I can't imagine why anyone uses it, other than they don't know anything else.

[bmurray7jhu]

Lots of semiconductor design tools are Windows only.

[rkagerer]

So are CAD design tools.

[throwaway2990]

So you’re used to Linux. But there are people who can do your job faster than you who use windows or macOS. Just like there are people who will work slower and be limited compared to you.

Use what you prefer. I can use any and get my job done. All 3 have their own pros and cons.

[cyber_kinetist]

Then how are you going to do the majority of native desktop app/game development (where most of your users use Windows)?

[ldarby]

I don't develop or support anything on Windows. Sure that excludes 99.9% (I guess) of career options involving a computer, but I've still found employment that doesn't require Windows. But once either Microsoft finally succeeds at banning Linux from running on desktop PCs (which is basically what this is about), or every single employer requires everyone to run Windows, then I guess I'll switch careers to farming or something.

[Kamq]

I would bet the majority of gamers are actually on console by raw numbers. Appliances are super useful for normies.

And native desktop development is, like, 2% of enterprise development. Tops. And all the paying users are over on the mac side.