Company policy and MS licensing agreements. Also while devs can work with any OS, most users are “used” to windows and windows based products. We are talking 30+ years at the job. So they just stay there.
Although its changing slowly. More and more apps are just web interfaces with makeup. Theres real talk that getting macs for certain departments. Its just one small step for linux at that point. And as people age out of the workforce, theres a push for newer tools…which dont require windows at all.
That’s so weird, tons of people use Linux for dev. Do they say why you can’t?
Company policy and MS licensing agreements. Also while devs can work with any OS, most users are “used” to windows and windows based products. We are talking 30+ years at the job. So they just stay there.
Although its changing slowly. More and more apps are just web interfaces with makeup. Theres real talk that getting macs for certain departments. Its just one small step for linux at that point. And as people age out of the workforce, theres a push for newer tools…which dont require windows at all.
According to one of our adjuncts: “Windows just works for dev, why are we teaching Linux at all?”
He didn’t last.
Maybe if you develop C# in Visual Studio then Windows does just work best.
In my companys case, they said it was an issue with intune compatibility for a good while. I’m hoping to switch off W11 soon!