All of the other fresh grad hires tried to use Ubuntu systems with a Windows XP mindset.
Having a central bank really is a great evil.
> All of the other fresh grad hires tried to use Ubuntu systems with a Windows XP mindset.
I've written about this on HN before, but the fact is that for many, having a pleasant experience on the terminal is a prerequisite for them taking the time to actually learn the basics. The the terminal emulator isn't a pleasant, cozy place to work in even for newbies, people won't stick around to learn fundamentals like exit statuses or job control.
By the same token, there are a lot of people with little previous command-line experience who respond very well to some friendlier defaults in their shell, and become much more interested in further customizing their experience and learning about the Unix environment.
We are a business, not a charity daycare, we do have to actually *judge* employees we hire on their merits.
> number of startups do use Mac
Modern day macOS is "fine" for the people who will be doing everything they do in Google Chrome.
The organizations I tend to frequent are of very high talent density, hence a software developer who forthcomingly prefers macOS and is clueless about *software* (ie operating systems) in a fundamental way is looked down on (and rightly so) by the higher echelon of talent.