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.
Even if you are cost sensitive, the OS is not at the top of expenses you need to worry about.
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.
Macs or cloud workspaces are there if you need posixy environments. Linux docker is OK on Windows too.