Ask for a Mac ? At this point enough manager were sold on it that most places have to support MacOS, and its popular enough with devs to also have to support dev environments on it.

Like even if you prefer Linux, Mac is a huge step up over windows and WSL if those were your only options.

Also latest Mac machines aren't even that overpriced as they were before their in-house CPUs, for the performance you get really there is only one PC chip out there right now that can be compared and that chip is available in like 2 laptops.

If you want to run Linux how is macOS a step up? It's a non starter.

Linux is Linux Windows offers Wsl1 and Wsl2 integration

The closest thing macOS has in any official capacity is their containers project, running each container in a VM for "security" at the expense of poor resource allocation and no compatibility with table stakes tooling like compose.