[nmstoker]

Was interested in the idea of Arch in a commercial environment.

Presumably this only works in a certain kind of place: one with motivated individuals and without the "oh my God people might do what they think is sensible" types from an overactive Compliance group.

Personally this would be a very satisfying kind of place to work because the single biggest challenge I face in my company is the endless fiddling that the desktop team do breaking things, as it's is often done wrongly or should be left well alone. I don't begrudge the people in the team as they're actually decent but they're stuck having to juggle various demands and roll out a steady stream of MS changes faster than they appear to have capacity for.

[paco3346]

This is what my org does. Devs are allowed to pick their own OS as long as they can support it when IT doesn't know about the particulars. We've even contemplated running it on production servers instead of Ubuntu so that we don't have to wait 18 months for Canonical to publish the next version of a package.