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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm in a weird unicorn org where we were issued MacBooks, but some of the people on my team have been there >20 years. The broader org issues Thinkpads, my dept picked MacBooks because apparently that's what developers use and we didn't want to deal with corporate's locked-down images.

I've been there about 4 years now, which is almost as long as my dept has existed (we started w/ a contractor group for 1-2 years before I got hired on).

I hate macOS, but I really like the dept. We'll see what happens.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We get macbooks at my work because we develop for linux servers but IT don't want to have to deal with linux clients on their network.

The corporate surveillance infrastructure is there for MacOS and it's nix enough for the development we need to do.

We had them complaining a few years ago that all these macbooks were too expensive (which they are) and we said to them "We're happy to take good quality Linux laptops..."

IT were like "Nah"

My first laptop with this company was a £3000+ MBP with an I9 which got too hot to touch. TBH since they replaced it with an M3 one i've actually enjoyed using it. i can spend all day in bed on a single charge

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you British me? That's pretty much exactly how things went down for us as well. As we've been upgrading from the crappy Intel Macs, the complaints have gone down as well.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah i'm london based (although almost exclusively work from home). the company is a huge multinational though, offices all over the world