[gray_-_wolf]

> talking about the average developer really, not the typical end-user

Average developer wants Windows (with WSL) or Mac. Still not Linux. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[diggan]

Highly dependent on your local bubble, obviously.

According to the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular..., which also is biased admittedly), it seems like for professional use, ~48% use Windows, ~32% macOS and 28% Ubuntu. ~17% also use WSL, which is basically Linux in Windows, so I guess you could say ~45% wants to (or at least, does) use Linux for work.

Seems not so clear cut as you seem to think it is.

[pjmlp]

I use WSL without really using Linux, although technically I do use it.

With that I mean, the only reason I use WSL is for running containers locally.

All the regular software, outside projects that require container based deployments, is straight Windows software.

[OJFord]

I would expect that survey to be biased towards more Windows users, if anything.

[Retr0id]

I'm surprised how small Fedora is relative to Ubuntu

[pjmlp]

And before WSL, it was all about VMWare Workstation, or Virtual Box, since hardware virtualization became a commodity.

I don't dual boot since around 2010.