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Their employer who provides and provisions the developers' workstations.

• rbanffy 5y ago
  I'm using a Windows loaner until my Mac is provisioned. They had a supply-chain snag at some point. This is kind of why I asked - there is nothing in Windows that calls my attention in a "Oh wow! This is good!" way. Quite the contrary - the upper crust of Windows 10 is polished, but every now and then I see dialogs that render text differently, with different widgets that don't quite work the same way as the rest. It's a bit like running xedit on a Gnome desktop.
  • npteljes 5y ago
    People are used to the suckiness that comes with Windows, to the point that they don't notice it as much. I often shook my head at my Linux setup at the time I switched too. But now when I go back to Windows, it's the same head shaking again, because I'm now used to an other system's idiosyncracies.
  • misja111 5y ago
    Yeah you're right, Windows isn't great for developing, although it isn't as bad as it used to be. But employers love it because they can run all their monitoring spyware on it, it integrates with Outlook and Office, plus they might have some legacy software that you have to use that runs only on Windows.
    • rbanffy 5y ago
      That's true. All my corporate issued Macs come with so much spyware they probably are heavier than normal Macs ;-)