According to Stack Overflow's 2019 survey [1], most developers (by far) use Windows (45.8%), followed by macOS (27.5%) and Linux (26.6%). Most of those Linux de

According to Stack Overflow's 2019 survey [1], most developers (by far) use Windows (45.8%), followed by macOS (27.5%) and Linux (26.6%). Most of those Linux developers will be on mainstream distros I guess, after all, BSD is only at 0.1%. Maybe those numbers look completely different for people who use Emacs as their browser, no idea, but I'd doubt it, I'd still expect esoteric distros like Nix or Qubes to be a small minority. And since most companies aren't Google or otherwise really, really good at security, and people are lazy, I'd expect to find a lot of passwordless SSH keys with access to prod servers and the like on those machines. And if not, there will be some other way to penetrate prod, if you own the machine and are determined. There will be some way to access secrets, too, in most places – there are companies that store them in git along with their code, since Github is very secure etc. [1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-developers-primary-operating-systems https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...