My choices at work were windows and mac. I changed from mac to windows so I have better bare metal support (AD, VPN, etc...) and run Linux VM's to do my work.

My choices at work were windows and mac. I changed from mac to windows so I have better bare metal support (AD, VPN, etc...) and run Linux VM's to do my work. It is a hassle, but I am not permitted to run Linux native on the laptop. I make heavy use of gnu screen on Linux in the datacenter so that most of my work stays at work and I just access over a vpn+ssh tunnel. Others use tmux. I think some devs prefer to code locally vs. check in and build remote. I am not constantly checking things in, so that is less of an issue for me.