[bitvoid]

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.

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.

[echoangle]

> 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.

[aaomidi]

> I would assume that companies are semi-rational actors and would switch if they could improve productivity that way.

lol

[sleepybrett]

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.

[aaomidi]

I've seen them be semi-rational on making decisions that actively reduce employee productivity.

At the end of the day, I don't think employee productivity matters much to large corporations.