I left in 2017, and I was one of the last SWEs to use a Linux laptop. Everyone had moved to a Mac, after the Christmas Windows security disaster (which I won't detail here). It was pretty much forbidden for a SWE to use Windows, and for a while Linux had a lot of users but over time it became all Mac. Finally in 2016 I caved in and drank the Kool-Aid too.
I'd go to the Tech Stop for something or other, and the staff would never object, since, after all, it was the official Google Linux. But you could tell that they didn't see this very often.
Side note: the Tech Stop staff were some of the best, nicest, and most competent people I ever encountered in that role.
Furthermore, whatever I needed seemed to almost always require them to keep it overnight and wipe the machine completely.