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Whenever I read an article like this („I am a CEO, I run my company on Emacs / Linux / Xyz“) I am reminded of Peter Drucker‘s book „The Effective Executive“. He distills five (?) behaviours, one of them: „Effective executives start out with the question, “What results are expected of me?” rather than with the work to be done, let alone with its techniques and tools.“

Use whatever works to get the job done.

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But that doesn't seem to be as useful or relevant advice in this case, because all of these tools (or operating systems) can perform the baseline of the job (creating and sharing documents, etc.)

One might have initially lower resistance than others, but another might have better long-term results and be more efficient.

As an executive, why would you focus on making your factory be more efficient when your executive team's workflow was also inefficient?

In a law firm, the workflow essentially is the factory floor for the product being manufactured.

It may be a difficult question to answer, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked.

For some value of "works". I would never entrust a document longer than 20 pages to Word for editing, because I've had bad experiences. I'd much sooner deal with LaTeX, even though it is missing an easy way to do many things.

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