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Heh, I used to work for a solar PV system manufacturer. Half the office was embedded systems and hardware engineers, who all ran System76 or Framework laptops. All the web devs had Macs. Management all used ThinkPads. You could tell what somebody did there just by looking at their laptops. And well, I guess the oscilloscopes were a bit of a giveaway too :)

In my much shorter 5 years, I’ve seen devs exclusively using Apple hardware.

And in my team, our dev environment has become increasingly local!

If you arent doing stuff that touches low level OS or high performance compute, it doesnt really matter what you use. Ive switched to Samsung Dex with a lapdock, and can easily do python and node dev. For high performance, I simply run a cloudflared tunnel to my home box.

In my decade its been majority MacOS. But Ive worked on the other side of this fence.

I have the exact opposite experience. Anyone not using a Mac gets raised eyebrows.