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> The only saving grace for windows is that its still seen as a industry standard
I can imagine some copy of Windows 10 Pro existing in some shithole small town in the Midwest, one that has never been connected to the internet, so some printer can do its printing thing, and some ignoramus telling some kid who asks why not Ubuntu with CUPS that Windows being there is "industry standard".
I have worked some handfuls of software companies under three different VC portfolios in Silicon Valley, New York City, and some nicer rural places in the greater areas around those cities. I have been to a fuck ton of meetups centered around software startups.
I have only ever seen Macbooks, Chrome Flex on big OEM (Lenovo) devices, Chromebooks for office admin types. There are two places I know of with high talent density where there were mostly traditional Linux distros managed with Ansible using GitOps patterns. The high talent density places are in part defined by explicitly not ever doing low quality hires, so they have the luxury of not having low quality people around.
There was one time I did actually see a machine running Windows in front of some guy my colleagues mistook as a candidate for interviews we were doing, which very quickly devolved to "why are you in our building and do we need to call security to help you find your way out?". After a couple of moments we realized that wasn't the case and he was an "IT guy" there to assist a paralegal staffing company (the one filled with old boomers) on a suite on the other floor.
Clearly I must be working in a different "industry".