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  • In my experience most non-Microsoft organisations use Mac’s for development but deploy to Linux in production.

    It’s rather insane because this of course creates lots of subtle differences between Dev and prod, although not as many as if dev was a Windows box.

    To answer your question though - just ask in the interview what the deal is so you know what you’re in for.

    If you deviate from the norm (i.e request a Linux box when everyone else is using MacOS) you’re always going to be the guy with issues that nobody else has.

    If the company has any kind of standard mobile device management - it probably won’t work on Linux.

    This will trigger the security team and probably the IT team because there’s always this outlier device that can’t run the standard VPN client or can’t have DNS config pushed to it or the Linux version of some app has bugs that don’t surface on the Mac version