That's funny... every team I've been on in the last 10 years has used Linux workstations almost exclusively, with a few Macs here and there.
In 27 years, I've had exactly two jobs where I didn't have Linux on my desktop, for a total of 5 out of those 27 years. In both cases, I still did all of my dev work on Linux.
It boils down to what kind of jobs you look for.
> So yeah, running cloud services doesnt require sysadmin skills, unless you assume copy pasting from oficial documention "sysadmin skills".
If that's the extent of how you're managing your cloud setup, then I could equally argue running bare metal servers doesn't require sysadmin skills either. When I did contracting, a large part of my income was to come in and clean up after people had relied on "copy pasting from official documentation" as a substitute for actual ops.
I have yet to work with a $corp that uses Linux for workstations.
Overwhelming majority uses Windows. Some use macOS.
The ocasional developer that uses linux will usually be in a VM, or if IT policies allow, WSL.
So yeah, running cloud services doesnt require sysadmin skills, unless you assume copy pasting from oficial documention "sysadmin skills".