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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.

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.