The question isn’t wether they want to use windows but if they’re productive using it. Unless you want to claim that a large proportion of devs isn’t productive, having a proportion of devs use windows proves that it works.
> It seemed like "productive" was used in a relative sense. Would all those people be more productive on macOS or Linux? That's not clear.
I would assume that companies are semi-rational actors and would switch if they could improve productivity that way. Especially since some sectors (graphic design for example) seem to prefer MacOS while others don’t. Of course there are some other factors (support, network effect, purchase cost) but if windows was just plainly unproductive, surely it wouldn’t be as popular as it is.
> Also, I thought the parent was replying to the following part, considering they said "I know plenty".
True, the survey doesn’t prove they actually prefer windows, u missed that context.
Indeed, i have never worked for a single company bigger than about 10 people that I could call 'semi-rational' when it comes to maximizing their worker productivity vs costs.
Also, I thought the parent was replying to the following part, considering they said "I know plenty".
> I don't know a single software developer that prefers windows anymore.