I would take "Now some people ask for an automation to get a "pre-installed" laptop" as a lack of " developers preferences".

Personally I dislike Git, and haven't found a git UI I like, so throw whatever you want on there. I am not going to like it, but not because I want something else.

Since you support a range of OSes I assume you would go with a cross platform editor IntelliJ, VSCode or something. Both are fine, and "something" probably is too.

I like beyond compare enough that I bought a personal license for it.

Give them a 100% works out of the box then they can customize the 1 or 2 things they care about.