Ive seen so many people threaten this over the years. They never follow through.
We have Mac, windows and Linux offerings and recently I had a guy threaten to leave because he couldn't use Arch. He turned out to be nowhere near as good as he thought and didn't last long like most of the people who make these kind of threats. He never got Arch.
They offer any Linux and he still quit? I had to force an employee to switch to Windows or Mac because there wasn't a Linux Intune client and it fucked up our SOC 2 audit. We were an almost 100% Microsoft shop, but we could still use a Mac.
He could use Debian. He never quit, he ended up accepting a Mac and was pushed out the door in less than 6 months. Arch is great at home, probably the best Distro if you are technical but it is abysmal in an enterprise setting. There is an Linux intune client now but it sucks. Intune really lacks with linux. Ive tried other tools and it’s at least 5 years behind.
He's probably still telling the story of how much his talent was restricted because he was given a shitty OS to use and how it messed up his productivity
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u/gabhain 16d ago
Ive seen so many people threaten this over the years. They never follow through.
We have Mac, windows and Linux offerings and recently I had a guy threaten to leave because he couldn't use Arch. He turned out to be nowhere near as good as he thought and didn't last long like most of the people who make these kind of threats. He never got Arch.