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FWIW I wrote this on my blog the other day which supports your observations from another angle: > I have seen developers starting to use Linux machines for a f

FWIW I wrote this on my blog the other day which supports your observations from another angle: > I have seen developers starting to use Linux machines for a few years already. It kind of reminds me of how it felt like when devs started to adopt Macs around 2005/2006 or so when Ruby on Rails became popular. And just like when Macs became popular, mainstream adoption seems to follow: I've already seen a sales guy running Ubuntu Linux (by his own choice) over a year ago. Note: the driving forces aren't exactly the same, but the feeling is reasonably similar in my opinion. Also I should note that the adoption of Linux among sales and other non-devs has surprised me.

tomxor 6y ago
> Also I should note that the adoption of Linux among sales and other non-devs has surprised me. That is interesting, I've seen colleagues go both ways - well three ways - Web devs going from windows/mac to linux, then a couple going back to both windows and mac due to needing to use adobe products (used to dual boot and now use WSL). Most people pick up on and appreciate the difference in speed/responsiveness and ease of doing dev (i.e it has an actual proper built in package manager that is fast, no brew crap). Whether they stay seems to be more to do with dependence - people who really like it even start to re-evaluate if they are truly dependent on software they liked, vs their new found utility. Media seems to be a big problem, (adobe et al), but sales perhaps not, i mean office is all going cloud these days anyway.