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But you don't want to run the special corp Google distro with hardening and spying / remote control as your personal computer. I wrote about their recommendation for regular users, which is to prefer win10 over win7.

I wish there were a Google distro I could use - I trust Google to properly vet all dependencies. I worry that other distros have trojans via app dependencies.

I have been thinking about using OpenBSD - but I am guessing that a secure OS is no help when you need to use insecure apps.

That is false.

I talked in person to some technical Googlers at an event a few weeks ago.

I asked them about this particular rule and they said they were allowed to use Windows but certain other engineers were not allowed to.

I came from the same understanding as you but my new understanding was that except for certain departments they are allowed to use Windows.