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The bubble is quite big though. Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook typically offer developers laptops with a choice of Linux / Mac (but not Windows). Win
by crabbone 2y ago
The bubble is quite big though. Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook typically offer developers laptops with a choice of Linux / Mac (but not Windows).
Windows for development is really a common choice if you make video games, hospital, school software or desktop stuff. But even there there are exceptions. It's unfortunately a common choice in some, esp. American companies where the product is intended for Linux, but they would still hand out Windows laptops to the employees because of their bad / backwards IT that only knows ("knows" is an exaggeration here...) how to work with Windows. So, it often comes to that an employee gets this decrepit system, but then works on Linux anyways, but the experience is worse because they need to jump through some hoops to get to the system they actually work with.
Anyways, any claims about what "most corporations" do smells like LinkedIn posts promoting a technology, where the claims are usually made w/o any research but also any way to disprove the claim. Just don't go there.
- wffurr 2y agoGoogle does offer Windows laptops, including to engineers. I had one for a while. It made a perfectly adequate thin client to my Linux workstation and made debugging in Windows browsers significantly easier.
- crabbone 2y agoThey didn't during my time. But my department didn't do anything that had to do with Web... also, we got into Google through acquisition, and the company originally started with developers working on Linux and rarely Macs. The IT wasn't really very selective about it, so there was a guy who wanted a Windows laptop, and they gave him one since they had licenses for the HR / sales etc. people, but he quickly gave up the idea. So, by the time we became Google, nobody really thought about it as a viable option.