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Doesn’t seem unreasonable. My work is entirely windows cause workload is primarily MS office

Whatever works. There isn’t some sort of diversity and inclusion requirement for OSs

There may not be a "diversity and inclusion" requirement, but I wonder if using an alternative OS could be considered reasonable accommodations in disability law? I'm totally blind and interviewed at a startup and when I told them I needed a Windows machine for accessibility reasons they decided it wasn't worth having me do the take-home coding project. At that point I decided if they were going to refuse to make what I consider a reasonable accommodation I'm glad I found out before wasting time on a take-home project. If the job was IOS development, then they'd have a point, but it was all back-end work that could just as easily be done with WSL under Windows as Mac OS.

People would have accepted this reasoning had they claimed it.

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