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Windows has plenty of developer community to keep the 80% market share customers happy with applications and games.

I personally have never seen a "windows" developer do any development work on a windows laptop (I see they have visual studio etc installed). Unless you counting documentation / requirements. I have seen a lot of ix devs and osx developers develop on their laptops. I work as a consultant in big enterprise world and with many startups on a range of projects.

I have seen plenty of them in the last 30 years, specially since 2006 doing consulting for Fortune 500, where docking station/thinkpad combos are pretty much standard.

A very famous Finish telecommunication company, several well known German companies in medicament production and life sciences domains, and a couple of car and package delivery companies.

Anecdotes.

Ahhhhh!!! You are correct the docking station. I ment being mobile and doing work. Most definety. I see more devs with docking stations then Apple / Linux combined. I just never seen them used it undocked for dev though lol. Great point!

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