[jawilson]

As of a few years ago, most engineers in my group had Apple laptops but linux desktops and mostly the laptops were being used as "terminals" via remote desktop and Chrome (as you were not supposed to store source code on a laptop anyways in case it was stolen but with some exceptions). I often used a linux laptop (or chromebook) and mostly just ssh'd into a "screen" session running lots of emacs which worked OK on the google bus.

The only folks with Apple desktops were people doing iOS work and I think they may have had linux desktops as well.

It was fairly easy to get another linux "desktop" which was really just a virtualized linux machine in the cloud.

[1] Yes, still called googlers.