That option involves taking on the army the secret service, and your neighbors. Not exactly an appealing choice

Well enterprise software is either going to run on windows or Linux servers, so sounds like windows and Linux make good dev workstations.

My current work gives devs macs but we build everything for Linux so it’s a bit of a nuisance. And Apple moving to arm made running vms basically impossible for a while, it’s a bit better now.

Still a giant pain in the butt to have your dev environment not match the build environment architecture.

I turn my desktop off every single day, so I need the power button daily, I turn my work laptop off weekly.