Much less than one month. More like one day, or even a few hours depending on your job.
Or to paraphrase an answer to the original question- because Windows is so cheap (compared to the other costs in a business) that it's simply not worth any effort at all to avoid it.
Saving $100 on the lifetime cost of a laptop, and the person who uses it, is a rounding error from 0.
Whereas every incompatibility, mitigation, driver download, print failure etc just costs time.
Does Microsoft really still sell Windows as a perpetual license to enterprises? I would have thought for sure that they would have found some way to sell it as a part of a bundle/subscription by now
Plus you might use Dell and let them do all the support, warranty and accidental damage cover. Having someone pop in and fix shit is great, and Windows is just part of that world. You now focus on your core thing.
Macs or cloud workspaces are there if you need posixy environments. Linux docker is OK on Windows too.
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The cost of using Windows over Linux per device is significantly less than one month's salary for an engineer.
Even if you are cost sensitive, the OS is not at the top of expenses you need to worry about.
Much less than one month. More like one day, or even a few hours depending on your job.
Or to paraphrase an answer to the original question- because Windows is so cheap (compared to the other costs in a business) that it's simply not worth any effort at all to avoid it.
Saving $100 on the lifetime cost of a laptop, and the person who uses it, is a rounding error from 0.
Whereas every incompatibility, mitigation, driver download, print failure etc just costs time.
Does Microsoft really still sell Windows as a perpetual license to enterprises? I would have thought for sure that they would have found some way to sell it as a part of a bundle/subscription by now
Plus you might use Dell and let them do all the support, warranty and accidental damage cover. Having someone pop in and fix shit is great, and Windows is just part of that world. You now focus on your core thing.
Macs or cloud workspaces are there if you need posixy environments. Linux docker is OK on Windows too.