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Originally Posted by AutumnBH
Do you lack basic reasoning skills?
1) Some people aren't willing to invest the time into learning how to be productive on another platform, so they stick with Windows.
2) Maybe they are using windows only software a lot of the time and they only want to run one OS - e.g. physical engineers who may do some coding but also have to use windows only CAD software.
3) Many "developers" are really only glorified hobbyists who can't work comfortably in a true unix environment and need windows gui handholding.
4) Some lunatics probably just prefer windows. There are plenty of windows fanbois out there who refuse to try anything different... Sad individuals that they are.
5) There is a massive and lucrative market for software built to run on windows platforms e.g. all that corporate software that runs on windows / activedirectory, windows mobile, game dev etc. and obviously you have to use windows to develop for MS platforms.
If you are a unix developer and you're using windows then you are clearly insane... If you are not a unix developer or you haven't actually tried OS X for a while then you don't have the the perspective to voice an opinion.
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"don't want to learn new platform" - if you run business or job you learn it, its not that difficult to move from windows to mac..
"windows fanboys" - no comment, leave fanboys be, but I assume any person who develops for a living is choosing platform that is more productive, not the one that they are "fanboys" to.
You mentioned few instances where people NEED to have windows, we are not speaking about such cases, we are speaking about people like OP. Why did he switch just recently, was that a big secret that OSx is more productive for him? I mean if its clear that Osx is more productive everybody would know that, he would have know that way before he made a switch and so on.
I mean OSx is such a magical tool that increases your productivity through the roof but no one knows that fact? It should be common knowledge.
I know OP will ignore my post and will talk about how worthless this discussion would be so he would not bother to answer...
So my last question to OP:
When you say your productivity went through the roof, what +-numbers are you talking about? +50% ? +30%? Even it was +10% it would be sensational, however hardly could be called "through the roof".