Anecdotally, this is starting to shift with M1 MacBooks, Graviton is looking more attractive for precisely that architecture parity reason for teams using majority M1 devices.
Yeah if only. Our ops people are too uneducated to be able to deploy anything Apple. Literally there are armies of factory pressed Windows monkeys but nothing in the Apple space.
Note to apple: please start concentrating on the enterprise sector. We're dying over here. My Dell weighs 3x my personal M1 MBP, has a shitty keyboard with keys designed for Borrowers, the battery lasts 8 minutes and it reduces my sperm count if I put it on my lap. It feels like I have a ball and chain around my ankle 24/7. My only escape is WSL2 which is broken as fuck as well (can't run services, cron jobs, X problems etc) and we can't install a simple non-WSL VM on the node because Device Guard requires hyper-v to be enabled excluding sensible and pure VM options like VirtualBox. Docker for windows is a comedy of errors too.
For what it's worth, I work in a large 30,000 employee company. Everyone gets a Windows machine by default.
6 years ago our department of 200 people "went rogue" and started provisioning Macs, because it was the only way we could hire developers and provide a good developer experience for the work we were doing.
This took some convincing, but it was possible. We agreed to be unsupported by the in-house help desk, but we had 2 people in IT that supported us for provisioning and fixing machines, and sorting out a small amount of required enterprise software like a Cisco VPN client and some fleet management background agents.
Otherwise, we self-organized support over Slack and in-office and also made use of Apple's business support directly.
As of earlier this year, our department is now over 600 people, and we've given our internal IT enough incentive to officially support Macs, which they now do, alongside Windows.
They use some kind of MDM software to manage and update and monitor our Macs the same as they do Windows.
There are also now additional much larger teams in the organization exploring Mac adoption where it makes sense for their developers too, and we could soon have thousands of Macs in use.
So it's definitely possible, even if you have to start small.
Unfortunately we're in a regulated industry so getting a PO signed off for one Mac is nigh on impossible without involving the entire corporate machinery.
Our company issues laptops yes, because everyone can choose to either work at home or in the office.
That said, we also supply external monitors, keyboards and mice for anyone who wants one, and every worker has a discretionary budget to spend on home office accommodations (chair, standing desk, etc).
I also suspect if a developer specifically asked for a desktop computer and could (lightly) justify the need for it, we would get them a desktop, and a laptop.
Unfortunately yes. I would rather a desktop but they don't know how to pay half as much for the same specification. The desks in the office are all equipped with docks and expensive WiFi mesh driven by COVID mentality so that is the status quo.
Just send me a fucking workstation. Nope too hard.
Thanks for the tip off. I will look into this tomorrow. This is why I'm here. The distributed consciousness of HN is a wonderful problem solving engine :)
Never user Docker for Windows, but Docker for Mac has not been great lately either.
Granted, macOS changes a lot between each release but our company is paying for Docker Desktop licenses and the experience has really been disappointing.
Tried that but unfortunately there are some painful addressing and routing issues when you are subjected to when dealign with a corporate always on VPN. Ergo you can't actually contact clusters which you have to admin via kubectl.
That’s the transition we went through. Our dependencies are / were pretty weird so the transition took a bit of effort - I suspect more complicated than many people would have to go through.
We all use Macs at work so we knew it was a matter of time before we were on ARM. I’m glad we made the transition. M1 airs are a delight to work with and Graviton machines are great bang for buck.
Note to apple: please start concentrating on the enterprise sector. We're dying over here. My Dell weighs 3x my personal M1 MBP, has a shitty keyboard with keys designed for Borrowers, the battery lasts 8 minutes and it reduces my sperm count if I put it on my lap. It feels like I have a ball and chain around my ankle 24/7. My only escape is WSL2 which is broken as fuck as well (can't run services, cron jobs, X problems etc) and we can't install a simple non-WSL VM on the node because Device Guard requires hyper-v to be enabled excluding sensible and pure VM options like VirtualBox. Docker for windows is a comedy of errors too.