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It’s been a while since I looked at it, but if I remember they specifically choose a pretty old model that is widely cloned.

Nope, still the same old BSD utils, but you can install the GNU versions pretty easily.

One addition, in the past I’ve been forced to use Windows at previous jobs, but once we got WSL, that wasn’t too much of a pain either.

And once upon a time I worked at HP and we were allowed to run whatever we wanted on our workstations, but that was before laptops were commonplace for my kind of work.

Linux admin grey(ish) beard here, work provides a MacBook and I just use it as a web browser and terminal.

Internal chat, mail, etc are all browser based, Google Docs is the office suite of choice for anyone I have to work with.

I get a decent terminal (iterm2), together with ZSH, tmux and Python is all I really need. We do have a bunch of GNU core utils installed as well, although coming from a UNIX background, I don’t mind the BSD versions that ship on MacOS either.

Would I prefer Linux? Yes, I would. But at the same time, the M4 performance is awesome, the touchpad is glorious and I don’t have to foot the bill, so I’m not complaining!

That’s definitely on the low end, at my employer we spend around 20k per server, that’s for 256 cores, 2tb of ram and some nvme.