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Dude how many qualifications do you have that you can turn down a job offer in this economy over such a rather minor inconvenience?!
Dude, that's like hiring a truck driver and telling him his lorry will be pulled by 4 horses.
If they want to pay me to deliver stuff on a unicycle, I'll be delivering stuff on a unicycle. Do I want to ride a unicycle? Depends on the pay.
Yet I work for a very successfully (we have too much work and don’t even advertise for it) small company and we all use windows computers as software engineers. We use C# .Net Entity Framework, SQL, GraphQL, React Typescript or WinForms.
We have some large clients that most people ok earth have heard of.
Nobody thinks you can't do software engineering on windows. It's just worse.
Have you considered that you might have too much work simply because these tools are inefficient?
Eh C# GUI development is quite productive. I don’t think you’d get such a pleasant experience on Linux.
"Minor" inconvenience is not having a coffee machine in the dining room, it's nothing like the culture of incompetence that permeates organization that are that severely vendor-locked.
Exactly, it’s a serious red flag.
If you've currently got a decent job, then you can afford to be suuuuper picky.
The best time to find a job is when you have a job.
I can say also as a senior engineer, I would never turn down another o ly because of this. It's not my software I'm making, it's the company. It's not my things. If they want me to code on a pentium 3 I'll happily do it, it's their money. They want me to waste it on that, that's on them.