I do not think Windows ever stopped being an option for developers. Perhaps web developers prefer to use a Unix-like OS since a lot of the work they do is runni

I do not think Windows ever stopped being an option for developers. Perhaps web developers prefer to use a Unix-like OS since a lot of the work they do is running on Unix, but not all developers are web developers and not all web developers are using a Unix-like OS (FWIW none of the web developers i personally know are using Linux or macOS). I think this sort of perspective is a bit of a bubble, considering that Windows has something around 85-90% desktop/laptop market share and developers aren't really any sort of special snowflakes to expect anything different (even if Unix-like OSes are more likely among developers, it will only be a bias towards them, not something that inverts a 9 out of 10 statistic).