Programmer Humor

Dude, that's like hiring a truck driver and telling him his lorry will be pulled by 4 horses.

"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.

If you've currently got a decent job, then you can afford to be suuuuper picky.

I mean, it could make a difference if you had to use OS specyfic tools, but if you're going to just code, use whatever you want.

Personally I also would not quit/back out just from that, but “it’s not my machine” misses the point, IMO. It’s a device I’m expected to use ~40 hours a week. Windows fucking sucks. Using that trash for half of my waking hours sucks. Been there, done that, I hope to hell I never have to again.

I think that depends a lot on what you're expected to do. I'd write an email like this if I were expected to be an effective developer on a Windows system. I use Linux because I use vim, not the other way around. I can't WSL for linux to use tmux or something and be nailed to one laptop screen, it just isn't worth it. Besides the whacky clipboard problems, it's just not sustainable to be permanently containerized in your host system IMO.

Now if you are using an "I"DE like vscode or something it's maybe not so bad because it at least plays on windows. Gvim is trash, and the whole reason to really lean in to vim/nvim is to sew your development environment right to any other program you need.

IDK, there's a dollar value beyond which I would not care, but it's a gross amount.

Yeah I care about my machine as much as it has my stuff inside, if it is not mine...

Not IT, but my dad said they lost a chemical engineering hire over this once, like 25 years ago.

Its posted in a humor sub soooo no

Not really. My employer provides win11 too, but I do over 60% of my job on debian machines running in hyper-v. (the other 40% are administrative tasks and work restricted environments)

To be fair they tried posting it on the Linux community on .ml and there were so many upvotes and positive feedback that it crashed the server. So they had to post it again somewhere more balanced to limit the impact.

It's tagged "Inbox", it looks like this is the recruiter's POV.

And preferring yet another proprietary OS.

Gmail is functional at what it sets out to do, which is send and receive email.

The sender is not expressing privacy concerns, they’re expressing functionality / utility concerns.

You assume they don't already have a job and we're just looking for other opportunities. Not everyone is unemployed before they apply for other jobs. If anything that is a good time to look as it gives you stronger position to negotiate from.

Senior backend engineering definitely doesn’t see 99% windows adoption rate.

Lmao.

,we have to submit tickets to run software because everything is installed through random .exes.

You have to do that because your IT department doesn't trust you. There's no difference in danger between a dev with system access installing an exe or a DMG.