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-esque adjective suffix : in the manner or style of : like
A very accesible blog post on how to use it: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/esque/
It is not perfect, but this method allows me to move around easily with didi without speaking chinese. I had no urban mapping problems, but I do test whatever address I want to go in baidu maps first, or any other chinese map app. That way, in case of problems, I can just show him the location or use whatever voice guidance, but I rarely needed this.
1. He gets the work done. 2. His choice of hardware/OS does not become a timesink.
In other words, in my department you can use whatever you please if you know what are you doing and you are going to properly deliver the work.
I personally have not seen any company with a mac only policy, but depending on the size or even the mood of the people in charge they might be annoyed at the fact that the newcomer does not like a seemingly perfect computer and they have to buy a new one, so I suggest a bit of caution.
If you are not sure about how will they take it and it worries you, why not just dual boot whatever OS of choice in that computer, or go for a VM for now until you can figure them out?