If you're hiring amateur developers at your startup, then you're doing something wrong. If you're forcing experienced developers to use a particular OS because

If you're hiring amateur developers at your startup, then you're doing something wrong. If you're forcing experienced developers to use a particular OS because you read in some dumb blog post that it was a good idea, you're doing something wrong. Really, I think on a small team, the best OS choice is the one that people know. There are very few cases where I can see OS dogmatism as being worth spending brain cycles on in an early-phase startup. If you're still small enough to all be eating at the same lunch table, you're also small enough that you don't need an IT policy.