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Many startups have a de-facto or de-jure "pick your own hardware" policy. You may be just seeing a Mac monoculture rather than a corporate policy. That's quit
by patio11 12y ago
Many startups have a de-facto or de-jure "pick your own hardware" policy. You may be just seeing a Mac monoculture rather than a corporate policy. That's quite common in some language communities -- I used to joke back when I was doing Rails on Vista that this excluded me from talking at any Rails conferences.
Worst-case scenario is they say "Oh, we only provision stock MBPs" and then you use Parallels or VMWare to boot into your favorite flavor of Linux. It is highly, HIGHLY unlikely that they'll micromanage that decision.
Also: welcome to adulthood. You are hereby authorized to speak to colleagues at your workplace about issues like this without asking permission from anyone.
- bradleyland 11y agoGreat advice as usual, but I'd point out that the last line is the most important one. No two workplaces are the same, and opinions rarely fit neatly in to bucketed categories like "can use Linux" and "can't use Linux". There's always some subtlety that blurs the lines. The best thing to do is to talk to potential employers. Be sure to make an honest effort to understand why they have the policies that they do, and remember that you don't have an experience managing n employees, so you may not be familiar with the challenges inherent to an environment where managers are outnumbered by 10:1. Every moment you spend understanding their viewpoint will allow you to better articulate how your desire to use Linux fits in to their model.